Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. Original English publication: “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” in Cato Unbound. La respuesta es complicada. Cualquier lectura de la gran masa de escritos de Kant nos ofrece inicialmente una mezcla de argumentos liberales y anti liberales que se encuentran e conflicto. Él defendió […]
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In response to other socialists who claim that National Socialism isn’t real socialism because it doesn’t outright nationalize everything. Hitler: “Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State,
An ethics question: Suppose that you’re part of an organization that: (1) spends other people’s money, (2) which is taken from them by threat of force. Further, (3) your organization hasn’t produced a balanced budget for decades, and (4) it uses accounting techniques that would send most people to jail. Now the question: What is
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Apparently the letters of my name are quite fertile in generating significant possibilities. * Highlighting some art: Sketch He Pins * Due to showering regularly: Stench He Skip * When writing about some kinds of art: Kitsch He Pens * A game followed by a nap: Chess Then Kip * When getting a sun burn:
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How different are Stephen Hicks’s and Jordan Peterson’s views on the origins of the Enlightenment? Was Christianity essential or a hindrance?
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Well said, and a strong analogy: “Socialism is no more successful in ethics than in economics, and for similar reasons: it sacrifices the future to the present by discouraging innovation and inverts the source of positive marginal change by moving it from the individual to society. Ethical wealth, like economic wealth, will be a function
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. El drama de la voluntad de poder Este episodio está inspirado en mi re-lectura de The Will to Power de Nietzsche. Estoy leyendo la traducción más reciente, realizada por el profesor R. Kevin Hill y publicada por Penguin en 2017. Es un libro increíble. La
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Hermann Hesse: “The German intellectual has constantly rebelled against the word and against reason and courted music.” (Steppenwolf, p. 152 Modern Library ed.) Scholarly bleg question: How much did Hesse read and absorb from Schopenhauer?
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