My colleagues in the Department of Philosophy, Shawn Klein and Matthew Flamm, will be leading a reading group on Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral Sentiments. Adam Smith is best known as an economist and a critic of mercantilism and as an early advocate of market economies. Less well known is Smith the moral philosopher. […]
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I will be giving a talk next week to a graduate philosophy class at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. The theme of my talk is: What Philosophers Need to Know about Economics. Over the past generation BGSU has developed one of the country’s strongest programs in applied ethics and political philosophy, so it will
[This is Section 17 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] 17. Economic controls Through education and censorship, the Nazis attempted to socialize the German mind. Through public health measures and eugenics, they attempted to socialize the German body. A natural extension of both policies was to socialize German economic production. As would be expected by the
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How much do the twelve days of Christmas cost this year?
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[This is Section 8 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] 8. Economic socialism, not capitalism The second theme of the Program is a stress upon socialism and a strong rejection of capitalism. Numerically, socialism is the most emphasized theme in the Nazi Program, for over half of the Program’s twenty-five points—fourteen out of the twenty-five, to
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[This excerpt is from Chapter 5 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Marcuse and the Frankfurt School: Marx plus Freud, or oppression plus repression Marcuse had long labored in the trenches of academic philosophy and social theory before coming to fame in America in the 1960s. He studied philosophy at Freiburg
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The estimable Adam Smith, writing over two centuries ago. When you read the following passage, do you find (as I do) that Smith is describing many current public schools and state universities? “In other universities, the teacher is prohibited from receiving any honorary or fee from his pupils, and his salary constitutes the whole of
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Dr. Joshua Hall, a professor of economics at Beloit College in Wisconsin, spoke at Rockford College on the topic of “The Dilemma of School Finance Reform.” The talk was sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship, and after the talk Professor Hall was video-interviewed by Anja Hartleb-Parson, CEE’s publications manager. More interviews with CEE’s
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