Philosophy

This image and caption are wonderfully revelatory about how many options young people (especially) now have and how our expectations for our work lives have risen. The caption is sarcastic, suggesting that settling for a job in such a place is beneath one’s expectations and aspirations. Great. Yet when we look closely at the work […]

A good, informal list: https://paulbloom.net/TeachingAdvice.pdf.

I’m having a trip down memory lane, having come across my grad-school notes on John Dewey’s 1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy. Yes, personal computers had been invented by then, but I was in transition from my old-style card-catalogue method. In part these caught my attention as I am preparing for my upcoming lecture on Dewey for

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. Yet frequently Nietzsche rejects individualism and elements that go into a full account of individualism. For example, note this from his The Struggle Between Science and Wisdom: “Beginning with Socrates, the individual all at once began to take himself too seriously” (SSW 132). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is

This report by Charol Shakeshaft of Hofstra University. Some excerpted tables: Contrast: A report on Catholic priests found that “about 4 percent of the 110,000 priests active during those years [1950-2002] had been accused of sexual misconduct involving children” (Source; also here).

Ryan Faulkner-Hogg and I had three long-form conversations about Nietzsche’s intellectual journey, one conversation on his early activities, one on the middle works, and one on his later life. At Atlas Geographica channel, all three conversations are integrated into a three-hour uber-conversation: Related: * Nietzsche and the Nazis.* Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.

The Scandinavian nations are consistently in the top 10% most free-market capitalist nations, and more so than the USA which is currently ranked 25th.  That’s been the case for the last generation of rankings in, e.g., this Index of Economic Freedom. The Index ranks 177 nations around the world. That means the top 18 nations