At this year’s APEE conference, I am chairing a session on “Ethics and the Financial Crisis.” The rationale for the session: Many conferences and debates are focusing on the economics and politics of the crisis, but much less attention is being focused on the core ethics issues involved. Here are the participants and the titles […]
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A warning to start: This video is repulsive, but I can’t stop thinking about it. The scene is Christmas morning, and we see a youth opening a present. He first thinks he’s gotten an Xbox — but then he realizes that his present is clothes packaged in an Xbox container. We see the kid’s emotions
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[This is Section 16 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] 16. Eugenics Nazi education and censorship attempted to control people’s minds. The Nazis also controlled the bodies of their citizens as much as possible. Milder controls involved new public-health measures such as an aggressive campaign against smoking: the Nazis banned smoking in certain public places, ran
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[This excerpt is from Chapter 5 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: Marx plus Freud, or oppression plus repression Marcuse had long labored in the trenches of academic philosophy and social theory before coming to fame in America in the 1960s. He studied philosophy at Freiburg
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A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2006, 2010. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is famous for his statement that “God is dead” — and for the fact that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis claimed Nietzsche as one of their great inspirations.* Were the Nazis right to do so — or did they misappropriate
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Steve Jobs on integrity: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.
Links to my syllabi, readings, PowerPoints, video lectures, and other supporting materials. Jump to: Biomedical Ethics (PHIL 256) * Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325) * Philosophy of Science (PHIL 330) Introduction to Philosophy (PHIL 103) * Modern Intellectual History (HIST 103) * Contemporary European Philosophy (PHIL 313) * Philosophy of Art (PHIL 349) *
1/31 Thomas Sowell on horses and buggies and Ford Has Worst Year Ever But Won’t Ask for Aid. Almost makes me want to go out and buy a Ford. (Thanks to Bob M. for the link.) And it surprises me to say, “the never-ending attempt to reconcile science and religion, and why it is doomed
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11/30 Free flip flops for drunks: Since your mom can’t always go barhopping with you, cystic fibrosis is just too white. (Via paying for organ donors. 11/27 Many grains of truth here: Donald Frazell’s What exactly is art? (Thanks to Bob H. for the link.) 11/26 John Allison’s talk to the Moore School of Business
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9/29 Photographs of nature the pretentiousness of Damien Hirst, darling the of “wannabe collectors,” is punctured by art critic Robert Hughes. (Thanks to Bob H. for the link.) 9/25 Exotic travel photos: Shahbasharat’s dancing around the world. (Thanks to Beverly for the link.) 9/22 For 3:AM Magazine, David Thompson Why Truth Matters. (Thanks to Bob
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