Some things are absolutes, and the brain-eaters are busy in many social sectors. All we want to do is eat your brainsWe’re not unreasonable; I mean, no one’s gonna eat your eyesAll we want is to do is eat your brainsWe’re at an impasse here; maybe we should compromise:If you open up the doorsWe’ll all […]
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. This clip: What is the source of self-dignity? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has
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Quick comment on the tweet’s rhetoric: Step 1: Government incentivizes orgy of debt. Step 2: Many semi-responsible people indulge. Step 3: Predictable economic disaster ensues. Step 4: Debtors ask government to wave its magic money wand to disappear their debts. Correction to Step 4: They *demand* the disappearance of the debt. Step 5: Throw in claim that
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You are a law-abiding citizen and a lover of art. You happen to be in a bar in Rome one night in 1506, where you witness a drunken, brawling Caravaggio kill an adversary. The day before, you had visited Caravaggio’s studio. You knew of two of his completed masterpieces, which you admire greatly. And in
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This week of the self-paced course on Objectivity features Stephen Hicks’s primer on Objective Journalism. “Objectivity means being committed to the facts and to using one’s mind as best one can to discover and interpret them. Journalistic objectivity includes being open to all the facts, doing research to discover the facts, verifying claims, and to integrating logically
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In this unit of our course on Objectivity we feature Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics. Rand was world-famous as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged when a collection of essays entitled The Virtue of Selfishness was published in 1964. In the opening essay, Rand presents a sustained argument for her ethic of rational self-interest. The full course on Objectivity: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/objectivity.
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In this unit of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery: Was slavery economically negative, not only for the slaves but the slaveowners and/or slave societies in general? Two broad positions have dominated the history of economic thought with respect to chattel slavery. A Fine coverage in Jeffrey Hummel on Slavery as Economic “Deadweight Loss”. Jeffrey
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In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s Open College Podcast on “The Stain of Slavery.” Topics: The decline of slavery as a moral achievement // History: slavery practiced everywhere before modernity // The internal African slave society and trades // The Atlantic trade and where the slaves went
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