September 1, 1939 is the date the German Nazis invaded Poland, initiating World War Two. Less well remembered is the shortly thereafter Soviet Russian invasion of Poland. A month earlier, the Nazis and Soviets had agreed not to attack each other and to divide Poland (and other parts of eastern Europe) between them. The Soviets […]
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Thanks to Mohamad Machine-Chian for this translation. It was first published as two separate columns in The Good Life series as “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” and “Is Free Speech Dead in Universities?” The two articles were edited by Vinay Kolhatkar and published at The Savvy Street. The articles were also translated
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Buffett was born August 30th, 1930 in Omaha. In honor of his birthday, Forbes has a list of his sayings, some of which I excerpt here: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.” “Can you really explain to a
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My article, “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” (English) was translated by the indefatigable Matheus Pacini into Portuguese: “KANT TEM LUGAR NO LIBERALISMO CLÁSSICO?” From the description: “Stephen R. C. Hicks argues that if our case for liberty comes from a mysterious other realm, then perhaps we have no case at all. He
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Self-esteem is 90% of the battle.
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Syllabi and other course material are at my Courses page. PHIL 256: Biomedical Ethics syllabus [pdf] PHIL 325: Business and Economic Ethics syllabus [pdf] PHIL 330: Philosophy of Science syllabus [pdf] Related: Readings at my Texts in Philosophy page.
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British philosopher John Gray claims: “We live today amid the dim ruins of the Enlightenment project, which was the ruling project of the modern period.” For more on the implications of Gray’s pessimistic assessment for postmodernism, see p. 23 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is
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From a review of always-thoughtful Mark Lilla’s 2018 book on how to revive liberalism. The question, says Samuel Moyn, is: “How did we get here? Much depends on how one narrates the path from 1968 to Trump’s election.” Moyn’s suggestion is: ‘After 1968, disaster set in. Faced with the sins of Vietnam, the Democrats flirted
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