Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. (El artículo original en inglés. Original English: Why Philosophy Begins with Thales.) La afirmación estándar es que la filosofía comienza con Thales. Cuando les enseño esto a mis alumnos, es difícil de vender, porque aquí están los textos fundadores de la filosofía, que Aristóteles atribuye […]
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I’ve received colorful correspondence from people upset with me over a dozen philosophical issues — especially from those who think Kant was Enlightenment/objectivist/liberal, Nietzsche was thoroughly individualist, Rand was antisocial, and that postmoderns are the good guys — as well as those who chastise me for supporting neither Trump nor Biden. Then there are those
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I reviewed Capaldi and Lloyd’s book for Law and Liberty. Here’s the Amazon link to the book itself: Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present. Related: Our CEE interview with Professor Capaldi for our Profiles in Liberty series.
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Kudos to Alfange for writing this, though I would like to see this generalized as a creed of human dignity and not merely an American one. An American’s Creed By Dean Alfange I do not choose to be a common man It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I
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As of April 23, 2021. Source. Vaccine effectiveness and country of origin.
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265) is a landmark decision about affirmative action decided in 1978 by the US Supreme Court. It upheld the lower court’s affirming that Allan Bakke should be admitted to UCD’s medical school and that racial quotas were unconstitutional but also upheld affirmative action, allowing race
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The absurdist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. He’s most famous for Waiting for Godot (a play in which pretty much nothing happens in the first act, only to be repeated in the second), was also the author of a novel entitled Molloy. Here is the main character, Molloy, reminiscing
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