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What Good is Religious Freedom? Tara Smith article in Arkansas Law Review

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Tara Smith has a very good article reinvigorating and extending the philosophical arguments for religious freedom: “What Good is Religious Freedom? Locke, Rand, and the Non-Religious Case for Respecting It” (Arkansas Law Review 69:4). Along the way she discusses the arguments and counter-arguments of John Locke, Brian Leiter, Jeremy Waldron, Ayn Rand, and others. Direct […]

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Business and Economic Ethics — Course Topics and Materials

Philosophy 325 Professor Stephen Hicks Introduction Stephen Hicks, “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us About Life” (or at The Wall Street Journal). Audio version. Topic 1: Entrepreneurism Hans Rosling, “200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes — The Joy of Stats” [Video] Movie: Mr. Selfridge (Season 1, Episode 1). Questions: Why do some people say “I’ve never

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How to Tame Religious Terrorists [Good Life series]

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Defeating an enemy such as politicized Islam is a multi-front battle—police, military, diplomatic, cultural, and philosophical. Any fight is triggered by short-term, local disagreements. But long-term, generalized conflicts are always about abstract principles in collision. As with neo-Nazis, Communist revolutionaries, violent environmentalists, bomb-the-government anarchists, and others—our conflicts with them are intellectual in origin. Terrorism is

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Comparing North and Latin America Economic Performance [Good Life series]

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What explains the dramatic differences in economic performance between the two Americas? Take some World Bank GDP numbers — one measure of economic success. We want people to make an adequate living, especially poor people who are struggling. And if we are ambitious, we want people to live the good life — including expensive things

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Dostoyevsky’s “Grand Inquisitor” scene [text]

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[Text is below or in PDF.] The Grand Inquisitor By Fyodor Dostoyevsky [From The Brothers Karamazov (1880, II.v.5). Translated from the Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. In this novel, Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God, and Alyosha is a novice monk. Aside from this background knowledge, the

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