Chauvin verdict, Gun control, Covid-19 successes
On this week’s Current Events program with Kelley and Salsman, hosted by Oddino.
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Philosophy
¿Tiene Kant un lugar en el liberalismo clásico?
Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. Original English publication: “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” in Cato Unbound. La respuesta es complicada. Cualquier lectura de la gran masa de escritos de Kant nos ofrece inicialmente una mezcla de argumentos liberales y anti liberales que se encuentran e conflicto. Él defendió
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Anagrams of “Stephen Hicks”
Apparently the letters of my name are quite fertile in generating significant possibilities. * Highlighting some art: Sketch He Pins * Due to showering regularly: Stench He Skip * When writing about some kinds of art: Kitsch He Pens * A game followed by a nap: Chess Then Kip * When getting a sun burn:
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“A difference with Jordan Peterson on Enlightenment foundations” [Five-minute excerpt]
How different are Stephen Hicks’s and Jordan Peterson’s views on the origins of the Enlightenment? Was Christianity essential or a hindrance?
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Socialism as *moral* failure (Den Uyl and Rasmussen quotation)
Well said, and a strong analogy: “Socialism is no more successful in ethics than in economics, and for similar reasons: it sacrifices the future to the present by discouraging innovation and inverts the source of positive marginal change by moving it from the individual to society. Ethical wealth, like economic wealth, will be a function
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Hesse on the German intellectual
Hermann Hesse: “The German intellectual has constantly rebelled against the word and against reason and courted music.” (Steppenwolf, p. 152 Modern Library ed.) Scholarly bleg question: How much did Hesse read and absorb from Schopenhauer?
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Compulsory pronoun use in academia?
Sixth Circuit Court decision, Thapar, Circuit Judge: “Traditionally, American universities have been beacons ofintellectual diversity and academic freedom. They have prided themselves on being forumswhere controversial ideas are discussed and debated. And they have tried not to stifle debate bypicking sides. But Shawnee State chose a different route: It punished a professor for his speechon
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Laissez-faire anecdotes: trying to buy wine
For the first time in my life, I tried to buy wine online. We’d had a tasty Malbec in a restaurant and, in part inspired by a friend’s small collection of favorite wines, I decided to buy a case of the Malbec from an online distributor that also has about twenty stores in the Chicagoland
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