Gregory Sadler, Ph.D. will be giving three talks at Rockford University on October 31. He is the editor of Stoicism Today. Two talks will be on Stoic philosophy in general, and one, for my Business and Economic Ethics students, will be as follows: Title: “Stoicism, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship” Content: Interest in modern Stoicism has increased […]
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Why one must always interpret a systematic philosopher’s normative conclusions in the context of his or her broader philosophy, and as a result why many Kantian ethicists are actually “Kantian” ethicists. My third post in the Cato Unbound series on Kant’s place in the classical liberal tradition.
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I’ll be participating in this fun-looking weekend conferenceat the University of Illinois, Springfield. My topic is: Does Free-market Liberalism Make You a Better Person? My abstract is: Advocates of free-market liberalism (FML) often emphasize how it increases people’s wealth and the many material benefits that wealth can bring—better nutrition, education, healthcare, artistic and cultural experiences,
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[Last week I posted five quotations from Ludwig von Mises indicating his opposition to anarchism. Several commentators mentioned the Mises Institute’s drift toward anarchism. That reminded me of some personal history.] I arrived at Rockford University as a newly-minted Ph.D. in the early 1990s. In addition to the normal excitement of becoming an Assistant Professor
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Interview with Professor Alexei Marcoux, conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Part I Hicks: My guest today is Dr. Alexei Marcoux, who spoke at Rockford University on moral partiality in business practice. Dr. Marcoux is a philosopher by training. He teaches in the business administration program
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Por Stephen R.C. Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of my article “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us About Life,” originally published in English by The Wall Street Journal.] Tomar riesgos y experimentar son cosas que todos podemos hacer, y no sólo en nuestras carreras. A menudo pensamos en los emprendedores como personas más extraordinarias que el resto. Toman grandes
Qué nos pueden enseñar los emprendimientos acerca de la vida [Spanish translation] Read More »
[This column is a part of the Theist vs. Atheist series debate between Stephen Hicks and John C. Wright. This is Hicks’s response to Wright’s column. Here are the links to other columns in the series.] To evaluate religion’s track record we need to specify our evaluative benchmarks and identify whether we are evaluating religion generically
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Professor Roderick T. Long has published his essay, “Kant: Liberal, Illiberal, or Both?”, in the Cato Unbound discussion series. Here is the abstract of his essay: Roderick Long offers a complex view of Immanuel Kant, who emerges as more often liberal in principle than in practice. Kant approved of taxation, a welfare state, and even
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