Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. – Page 283

Czego przedsiębiorczość może nas nauczyć o życiu? [Polish translation]

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[The following is a Polish translation of my “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us All About Life”. Here are links to translations into Spanish and Portuguese. Tekst ukazał się w The Wall Street Journal, 2 maja 2016. PDF.] Stephen R. C. Hicks Często myślimy o przedsiębiorcach jak o przerysowanych postaciach. Podejmują duże ryzyko. Tworzą własne zasady. […]

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My “Marxist lunacy” on display once again

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At the end of this post, a reader identifies me as a pile of human excrement who attacks the rich and advocates the elimination of the middle class. Here’s the comment: You attack the one percenters and the leader of the huge corporations as the problem. Please tell me why almost all one percenters and

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Joy in education — Susan Engel asks why it’s missing

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Kevin Currie-Knight pointed me to this Atlantic article by Susan Engel, in which Engel notes: “Many teachers are pressured to treat pleasure and joy as the enemies of competence and responsibility.” That perverse duality pervades so much of education historically and today. I’m reminded of John Locke’s hopeful musing in the 1690s on how best

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Texts in Philosophy — mid-2017 additions

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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Justice Brennan, excerpt from Furman v. Georgia 408 U. S. 238 (1972), and Justice Stewart, excerpt from Gregg v. Georgia (1976). Stephen Hicks, “Ethics for a Democratic Republic” (2015). Immanuel Kant, Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (1785). Stanley Milgram, excerpt from Obedience to

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Parents’ time, then and now

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Some questions based on this chart (via Michael Strong): 1. Households’ paid income increased by a combined six hours, from 50 to 56 hours per week of paid work. So are households richer by 12% or so? 2. Housework declined by a combined 10 hours per week. Are houses now dirtier or messier? Or has

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Fascism — three quotations from the source

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Two from Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile’s The Doctrine of Fascism (1932): “Fascism sees in the world not only those superficial, material aspects in which man appears as an individual, standing by himself, self-centered, subject to natural law, which instinctively urges him toward a life of selfish momentary pleasure; it sees not only the individual

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Rocco’s The Political Doctrine of Fascism [text]

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[In the 1920s, Professor Alfredo Rocco became Minister of Justice in Italy under Benito Mussolini. This essay was originally published in 1925, and this translation1 by Dino Bigongiari (Columbia University) was published in 1926. It is here also in PDF format. More Texts in Philosophy at my site.] The Political Doctrine of Fascism By Alfredo Rocco Fascism

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Artist as entrepreneur versus patronage — Beethoven and Mozart

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From a letter from Beethoven to Franz Wegeler in Bonn, June 29, 1801: “You want to know something about my present situation. Well, on the whole it is not at all bad … My compositions bring me in a good deal; and I may say that I am offered more commissions than it is possible

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