My livestream The Religion Course — concludes this Wednesday at thinkspot. What is religion? Is it true? Is it good? If neither necessarily, is it useful? Does the meaning of life depend upon religion? For example, here are some candidates from major intellectuals: “The essence of religion consists in the feeling of absolute dependence.” (Theologian […]
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Christine Jackman on getting past the toxicity of much social media and other conversations. Ms. Jackman will be the MC for the inaugural The Brisbane Dialogues next month, in which I’ll be debating Professor John Quiggin about whether postmodernism is a right-wing phenomenon.
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My mini-course on religion — now running at thinkspot — wraps up on Wednesday evening at 7:30 Central Time. I will cover the major and varied moral and social dimensions of religions and conclude with my definition of religion. Our governing question for this three-lecture course is: What Is Religion? We set aside the questions
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Professor Mario Rizzo presents his new book Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The book is co-authored with Glen Whitman. I love the cover image. Rizzo is a professor in the Economics Department at New York University and a deep-thinking scholar. Here’s his one-hour lecture at Brown University on the book’s themes:
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… will be published in March by Connor Court Publishing. Liberalism: Pro & Con By Stephen R.C. Hicks Foreword by Parnell Palme McGuinness Paperback, 110 pages, ISBN: 9781925826821 [Stephen Hicks Australian Tour Release: March 2020.] Why take up the strongest arguments? In this primer, our method starts by taking up the best arguments for and
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CULTURE WARS 2.0: How Political Correctness is Shaping Your World Thursday 12th March 2020, 6-8 pm. Tickets available via Eventbrite.
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Philosopher Marc Champagne has published what I believe to be the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and liked it and contributed a back-cover blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s
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