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Postmodernismens Förklaring: Skepticism och socialism från Rousseau till Foucault

3 Comments / History of Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Postmodernismens Förklaring: Skepticism och socialism från Rousseau till Foucault Hur kunde postmodernismen bli en av de mest livskraftiga intellektuella rörelserna under 1900-talets andra hälft? Varför är relativistiska argument fortfarande så effektiva i den intellektuella världen? Varför ges de en tyngd inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap men inte inom naturvetenskapen? I Postmodernismens förklaring utmanar filosofen Stephen R […]

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Interview with Zoltan Cendes now online

Leave a Comment / Entrepreneurship / Stephen Hicks

My Kaizen interview with entrepreneur Zol Cendes on the theme of Entrepreneurial Software is now posted at the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship site. I met Mr. Cendes in Naples, Florida, to discuss his experience founding Ansoft, a $900 million software company that revolutionized engineering modeling. The interview was originally published in Issue 29 of

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Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics

3 Comments / Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Ethics / Stephen Hicks

In this 21-minute video lecture, Entrepreneurship and Virtue Ethics, I connect the success traits of entrepreneurs (e.g., initiative, guts, win-win trade, and so on) with moral virtues (e.g., integrity, courage, justice, and so on). My thesis is that what is practical in business and what is moral are tightly integrated — in contrast to the

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How to talk with your children about Kant

6 Comments / History of Philosophy, Humor / Stephen Hicks

Michael Onfray has this amusing photo of a copy of Kant’s Critiques with a disclaimer stamped on its title sheet: “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race,

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A postmodern timepiece

2 Comments / Humor, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Design idea for a watch: It has no numbers or hands. It has only text saying Time has no meaning. It is sold in both jewel-encrusted and cheap knock-off versions. I do not make them myself. I license manufacturers in Asia and distributors in Europe and North America. Deconstructing my performance-art-as-text, you will discern my

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Individualism and economic growth — Gorodnichenko and Roland

Leave a Comment / Business Ethics, Culture, Economics, Ethics / Stephen Hicks

In an NBER paper, “Culture, Institutions and the Wealth of Nations,” Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gerard Roland compare the growth gains that individualist ethics generate compared to those of collectivist ethics. The first sentences of their abstract: “We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts

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Chart images for “13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13 minutes”

1 Comment / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

To accompany my short video-lecture clip “13 Arguments for Liberal Capitalism in 13 Minutes,” here are two versions of the embedded flowchart of the arguments. Click to enlarge. (Thanks to Christopher Vaughan for his graphics work.)

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Timbro to publish Swedish translation of Explaining Postmodernism

1 Comment / History of Philosophy, News / Stephen Hicks

I’m happy to announce that my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault has been translated into Swedish and will published as Postmodernismens Förklaring: Skepticism och socialism från Rousseau till Foucault by Timbro and Stiftelsen Fritt Näringsliv in Stockholm. Much thanks to Anders Johansson, who did the translation, and to Adam Cwejman, who

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