Clemson University professor C. Bradley Thompson has a good article answering the question “Do Corporate Donors Threaten Academic Freedom?” It prompts me to post here my remarks from 2008, then published as “The Ethics of Outside Funding” [pdf]. The text follows: THE ETHICS OF OUTSIDE FUNDING Stephen R. C. Hicks Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship […]
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Dr. William Kline is professor of philosophy and business at the University of Illinois, Springfield. In this 14-minute video lecture on “Entrepreneurship and Liberty” Professor Kline discusses the relationship between liberty and entrepreneurship. He explains how laws, culture, and economic regulation can infringe upon the freedom of entrepreneurs and inhibit their abilities to innovate. He stresses
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As far as we know, Hume never fathered a child — but imagine how the arguments would go at a paternity lawsuit.
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Defeating an enemy such as politicized Islam is a multi-front battle — police, military, diplomatic, cultural and philosophical. “Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists and
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[In the excerpts below from Summa Theologica (written 1265-1274), St. Thomas Aquinas takes up two questions: Whether it is lawful to kill sinners? and Whether heretics ought to be tolerated? A PDF version of this text is here.] Whether it is lawful to kill sinners? [II II Q. 64 A.2] Objection 1. It would seem
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I gave a lecture at the Atlas Summit in June 2015 in New Hampshire on “The Three Best Arguments against Liberal Capitalism.” See the video of the 50-minute lecture here: More information about the Atlas Society and its annual Atlas Summit is here.
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My article was published recently at The Savvy Street. 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 articles were also translated into Portuguese by Matheus Pacini as “Republicar Mein Kampf é a decisão correta?”
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A proposição-padrão é que a filosofia começa com Tales. Quando ensino isso aos meus alunos, é uma venda difícil, já que entre os textos fundadores da filosofia — atribuídos a Tales por Aristóteles — está a seguinte afirmação: “O primeiro princípio e a natureza básica de todas as coisas é a água.” e “Todas as
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