One must always interpret a comprehensive philosopher’s remarks on applied matters in the context of his philosophical system. Let me give an exaggerated, fictional example to stress this point about method. Suppose one reads … Chapter One of a philosopher’s book in which one finds affirmations that individuals should seek freedom and realize their true selves […]
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In this week of the self-paced course on Objectivity we feature Tara Smith’s “Objective Law”. Smith (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas and author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Our Executive Summary gives eight key points from Smith’s 13-page article. The full course
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Kieran Bhattacharya was expelled from the University of Virginia medical school. A journalistic account is here. The university claims his persistent questioning at a panel discussion and his follow-up resistance to the university’s orders violated “the school’s professionalism standards.” Professionalism cuts both ways at a university — both for students and for faculty/administrators — but
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Translated into Brazilian Portuguese. Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy, 2004). Portugués: Faro Editorial (São Paulo, 2021). Amazon Brazil. E-book. Amazon Kindle. iTunes.Resumo: O Pós-modernismo, por abordar temas que afligem o homem de hoje — como às inquietações em relação ao futuro e o colapso
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El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Para Hicks, estas escuelas de pensamiento están en constante conflicto. Por un lado, se encuentran los ídolos del sistema educativo de América Latina: Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche y Derrida. Por el otro, tenemos a Bacon, Locke, Newton, Smith,
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Nietzsche is often reductionist, so this aspirational mind-body integration claim is striking: “It is probable that in such perfectly well-constituted men, enjoyments of a wholly sensual nature are ultimately transfigured into allegorical reveries of the highest intellectuality; they experience in themselves a kind of deification of the body” The Will to Power, 1051
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Jacob Zineman in 1923: “As a convinced Marxist and enthusiastic socialist during the period of my youth, I wanted to forget the harsh, insulting expressions on Jews and Judaism which Marx had penned in his well-known article of 1844 ‘On the Jewish Question’. I searched for all kinds of reasons to justify and excuse Marx’s
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Academic article of the week, summarized: “I smell bad. Capitalism wants to fix my body odor. Oppression!” https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/ethicsenviro.24.1.02
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