On the correlation of wealth, freedom, and happiness
Happiness Heat Index of the World: Related: Professor Tara Smith’s fine essay, “Money Can Buy Happiness,” linked here.
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Dr. Stephen Hicks on The Invisibility of Entrepreneurism: Why Free-Market Policies So Often Lose
FEBRUARY 17TH WITH STEPHEN HICKS in MILWAUKEE. REGISTER TODAY The Wisconsin Forum 2021-2022 Season continues next Thursday, February 17, 2022, with Dr. Stephen Hicks speaking on The Invisibility of Entrepreneurism: Why Free-Market Polices So Often Lose. Description: The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many
Cato series on Kant and the Classical Liberal Tradition
A plug for what I found to be a useful discussion of this philosopher. Linking again as Kant and his complicated relationship to the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment are again being hotly contested. “Immanuel Kant is a famously difficult philosopher, but also undeniably an important one. It isn’t hard to argue that he belongs somewhere in
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3 paired Kant and Mussolini quotes on individuals, reason, war
The connections between philosophy theory and political practice are often long-term. Here are three juxtapositions of quotations from philosopher Immanuel Kant in the 1780s and philosopher Gentile and politician Mussolini in the 1930s. On what’s good for the species versus what’s good for the individual: Kant,: “For all of that, this path that for the
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Re-learning tolerance, 21st century version
In the religious wars of the16th and 17th centuries, persecution, torture, and killing were widespread. Yet out of that ugliness we learned, morally, that tolerating others’ mistaken views is essential and, politically, that individuals must be free to think, learn, and act. We learned to live and let live in regular life, and we learned
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Young B. Franklin on free speech and wisdom
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer,
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When professors are hired ideologically
Historical example to keep in mind: Text version: “Although the new National Socialist government refused to grant its student supporters the power they demanded to hire and fire professors, it did make job tenure a matter of political ideology.” (Source: historian Arthur Herman’s fine 1997 book, The Idea of Decline in Western History, p. 252)
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Review of Zelmanovitz on the philosophy of money
Review of Leonidas Zelmanovitz,The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions Lexington Books, 2015, 447 pp.Reviewed by Stephen HicksFirst published at Law and Liberty, edited by Richard Reinsch and Lauren Weiner. Money is funny, the old saying goes, both in the cognitive puzzles it generates and the motivational extremes of human
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