I cannot read this, but I am happy to know it exists: شرح ما بعد الحداثة: الشكوكية و الإشتراكية من روسو إلى فوكو Ayoub Salhi and Anouar Elmekki have produced and published this Arabic translation of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism […]
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Countries ranked in five areas of moral freedom: Category A. Religious indicators. How free is the practice of any religion or none, and how religious-controlled is the state. Category B. Bioethical indicators. How free is individual decision making on matters posing bioethical questions. Category C. Drugs indicators. How free is the production, trade and consumption
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I’m recording a podcast with the excellent John Tamny in the Freedomworks studio. More information about the topic and release date to come. Tamny writes at Real Clear Markets and has a new book out: They’re Both Wrong.
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In my The Religion Course with Stephen Hicks (now running at thinkspot), our first big question is: What Is Religion? We set aside the questions of whether religion is true, good, or useful and focus only on understanding the phenomenon. What do, say, the Abrahamic religions, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism, Wakan Tankaism, and traditional African religions
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The next episode is recorded and in production by Possibly Correct Publications: OC 33: Young People’s Socialism. The podcast will be available for free on social media (iTunes, Soundcloud, YouTube, etc.), and the transcriptions will be available to my subscribers at thinkspot. Related: The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.
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Even making allowances for politicians’ blabbermouthing … … this is inane and the opposite of morality. * I earn $100 for myself. But earning $100 for my employer is more important? And infinitely so? * I do a good job mowing my lawn. But mowing my neighbor’s lawn is more important? * I successfully find
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A bold statement from Nobel-Prize-winning novelist Hermann Hesse: “The German intellectual has constantly rebelled against the word and against reason and courted music.” (From Steppenwolf, p. 152, Modern Library ed.) I like the spirit of it, as it fits with my assessment of mainline German philosophy in Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to
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This is still true: “The university teacher should, if he is fit for his position, be a person of a fair and judicial mind; he should, in dealing with such subjects, set forth justly, without suppression or innuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators and he should, above all, remember that his business is not