[Update: YouTube banned Stefan Molyneux’s channel in 2020.] Our full interview from June of 2018. (I was sick with a cold and hadn’t slept, but I’m happy with the content. Though maybe not, as one of the commenters says “I believe this guy is a secret Christian” while another says I’m an “uninformed, materialist, socialist […]
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[Reposting from its first publication at EveryJoe.] Is a seismic change rumbling through Left-wing circles? In the hard-Left Jacobin magazine, two young philosophers bemoan their discovery that postmodern strategies have now been captured by the hateful and hated Alt-Right — and so in reaction they propose that socialists embrace the philosophy of the Enlightenment.[1] President Donald
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G.W.F. Hegel said: “This *Good*, this *Reason*, in its most concrete form, is God. God governs the world; the actual working of his government—the carrying out of his plan—is the History of the World.” For more on the meaning of Hegel’s quotation and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 58 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism
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Dr. Jane Clare Jones seems like a nice, intelligent person, but my tweet about the ethos of the Intellectual Dark Web prompted a strongly negative response and this chain of exchanges: Dr. Jones replied: I responded, as did she: And with a helpful clarification that she also disagrees with the authoritarian Left: Me on the
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13 Argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal en 13 Minutos por Stephen R.C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde y María Marty Original English. Portuguese. German. Argumento 1: El Capitalismo Liberal aumenta la libertad Primero, definamos nuestros términos. Por “Liberalismo” nos referimos a una red de principios que están institucionalizados. Los politólogos hablarán de ellos
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In Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkegaard defends faith by going on the offensive against reason: “Faith requires the crucifixion of reason.” For more on the context of Kierkegaard’s irrationalism and its implications for postmodernism, see p. 98 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this
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Here is Jason D. Hill’s radical call to defund and disempower the anti-education ideologues. Hill is the author of Becoming a Cosmopolitan, which I used in my Ethics course last semester. His new-this-month book is We Have Overcome: An Immigrant’s Letter to the American People. Thanks to Robert Marks for the link to Hill’s The
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau claimed: “Reason is what engenders egocentrism and reflection strengthens it. Reason is what turns man in upon himself. Reason is what separates him from all that troubles him and afflicts him. Philosophy is what isolates him and what moves him to say in secret, at the sight of a suffering man, ‘Perish if
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