J. S. Mill, “Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion” [Atlas Intellectuals]

This unit of our self-paced course on Objectivity, we feature John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty with its powerful attack on censorship in all forms. Mill argues passionately for objectivity and intellectual diversity in liberal education. See the Executive Summary here. The full course on Objectivity: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/objectivity Other Atlas Intellectuals courses on Capitalism, Postmodernism, Money, Robotics,

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“La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo.”

“La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo.” Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Estamos luchando contra los posmodernistas con una mano atada a la espalda? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. Para más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ English Original version: The Spectator. Also Portuguese translation and Open College audio version.

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ContraPoints on Envy (and some snark)

Thanks to Mark V. Kormes for the link to ContraPoint’s vlog on envy. It’s an excellent diagnosis of this pathology — including apt insights from Aristotle, Nietzsche, Paglia, and other important names. And she’s even read Schoeck’s masterwork Envy. Contrapoints’s video is well worth your time for its coverage of envy’s many manifestations. Towards the

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Is Rousseau now more important than Marx? (With O’Fallon and Lindsay)

James Lindsay and I focus on the influential Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose anti-Enlightenment ideology is very much in fashion again after the disasters of Marxist socialism in the 20th century. Bad ideas don’t go away after failure — they get repackaged and re-introduced in other guises. Discussion hosted by Michael O’Fallon. From the description: When you

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