[First published at EveryJoe.com.] Full disclosure at the outset: I’m a philosopher, and this new series of columns on The Good Life will often be about human nature, knowledge, the meaning of life, and of course politics. So let me start by indicating some of my colleagues’ opinions about politics. A favorite party game for […]
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My article “Liberalism: The Fifteen Best Arguments” [pdf] is now out in Reason Papers 37:2 (Fall 2015), pp. 108-132. I make fifteen arguments for the free society — the ones that I judge to be most essential and most influential. The arguments are: 1. Liberalism increases freedom 2. People work harder in liberal systems 3.
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Here’s a review of my Nietzsche i naziści. Moje spojrzenie, tłum. I. Kłodzińska, (Chojnice: Oficyna Wydawnicza Fundacji Fuhrmanna, 2014). Its author is Ks. Janusz Chyła, who is on the theology faculty at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. It’s published in the journal Teologia i Człowiek. To my knowledge, this is the fifth scholarly
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I have a chapter forthcoming in this new volume: CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance: Building New Bridges between Business and Society Editors: Hualiang Lu (Nanjing, China), René Schmidpeter (Cologne, Germany), Nicholas Capaldi (New Orleans, USA), Liangrong Zu, (Turin, Italy) Publisher: Springer Books. Date: 2016 Abstract: Entrepreneurship’s Relationship to CSR (Prof. Dr. Stephen R.C. Hicks) This
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Logo cedo, vesti minha jaqueta de couro argentina, calcei meus sapatos indianos e entrei em minha caminhonete japonesa. Eu parei em um posto de gasolina da British Petroleum e conversei com seu dono, um mexicano. Para pagar por tudo isso, dei a minha primeira aula do dia — cujo tópico era um filósofofrancês, utilizando para
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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: I am Stephen Hicks. Our guest today is professor Arielle John, who is teaching fellow in the Department of Economics at Beloit College. Professor John was here to speak with us on culture and entrepreneurship with special
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In the mid-1700s: “Smallpox was the scourge of these times, just as the plague had been in the seventeenth century, or leprosy toward the close of the Middle Ages. A medical treatise published in 1774 calls it ‘the most universal disease.’ In France, ninety-five out of every hundred persons contracted it; one out of seven
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Files are PDF. Ethics (PHIL 122) Syllabus. Reader: Ethics Selections. Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325) Syllabus. Business Ethics Reader.
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