Some wise words from Deirdre McCloskey, for those who fear that things were healthier in the good old days and that we are degrading our environment and living less authentic lives: “‘Ah, but the environment was better.’ Briefly for now, no. Consider that you may be mistaken. Air quality during the past fifty years has […]
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How is this for an oath of allegiance to one’s monarch? “We, who are as good as you, swear to you, who are no better than us, to accept you as our king and sovereign lord, provided you observe all our liberties and laws — but if not, not.” I’ve been reading Robert Hughes’s 2004
Fiery Catalan independence Read More »
The wind has that tone Between whistle and moan.
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Professor Hicks here discusses our faculty of reason and its development from infancy to maturity. This is from Part 3 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-4: Previous: Introduction: What epistemology is. Next: The Semmelweis case. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Here Professor Hicks discusses the central metaphor from a passage in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as an example of method. This is from Part 3 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-3: Previous: The Semmelweis case. Next: Education’s epistemological mission. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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[This is Section 40 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] Part 8. Conclusion: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies 40. Hindsight and future resolve We know from historical hindsight that it took a world war to defeat the Nazis. Tens of millions of human beings died in that war. Actual human beings who lived, loved, cried, had dreams—and
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Like Peter Keating, Gail Wynand pursues a use-and-be-used career strategy. Wynand uses strong-arm tactics when necessary in building up his newspaper’s market; he manipulates his employees with money to break their integrity; he fires those like Dominique who refuse to bend; and he lets the lowest-common-denominator of public taste dictate the content of the newspaper
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Get thy reeky hide hither, sirrah, and desist with the pewling — beslubbering puttock thou oft art. (Via John Enright: no mammering lewdster he.)
How to insult like an Elizabethan Read More »