Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1871) Chapter 1 Who is right, the idealists or the materialists? The question, once stated in this way, hesitation becomes impossible. Undoubtedly the idealists are wrong and the materialists right. Yes, facts are before ideas; yes, the ideal, as Proudhon said, is but a flower, whose root lies in […]
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The long-term estimated death toll from the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India is about 15,000 people. To put that in context, consider that the estimated immediate death toll from the Soviet Union’s 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is 4,000. The death toll from Japan’s Fukushima nuclear radiation leak in 2011 is zero. And the death toll
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[This is a Spanish translation of my “Sex with Robots? The Ethics”, first published in English at EveryJoe.] Se está viniendo una nueva generación de robots sexuales, y las bromas ya han comenzado. “Yo no necesito uno…” — dice una mujer casada — “mi marido ya es suficientemente robótico en la cama.” Ja ja. “Seguro…”
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On October 31, I will be giving three talks in Minnesota at Gustavus Adolphus College: * The Ethics Debates over Minimum Wages * National Socialism: Was it really socialist? Was it really a philosophy? * Entrepreneurship and the New Moral Leadership Thanks very much to Professor Marta Podemska-Mikluch of GAC’s economics department for inviting me.
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Gregory Sadler, Ph.D. will be giving three talks at Rockford University on October 31. He is the editor of Stoicism Today. Two talks will be on Stoic philosophy in general, and one, for my Business and Economic Ethics students, will be as follows: Title: “Stoicism, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship” Content: Interest in modern Stoicism has increased
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I’ll be participating in this fun-looking weekend conferenceat the University of Illinois, Springfield. My topic is: Does Free-market Liberalism Make You a Better Person? My abstract is: Advocates of free-market liberalism (FML) often emphasize how it increases people’s wealth and the many material benefits that wealth can bring—better nutrition, education, healthcare, artistic and cultural experiences,
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[Last week I posted five quotations from Ludwig von Mises indicating his opposition to anarchism. Several commentators mentioned the Mises Institute’s drift toward anarchism. That reminded me of some personal history.] I arrived at Rockford University as a newly-minted Ph.D. in the early 1990s. In addition to the normal excitement of becoming an Assistant Professor
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Por Stephen R.C. Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of my article “What Entrepreneurship Can Teach Us About Life,” originally published in English by The Wall Street Journal.] Tomar riesgos y experimentar son cosas que todos podemos hacer, y no sólo en nuestras carreras. A menudo pensamos en los emprendedores como personas más extraordinarias que el resto. Toman grandes
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[This column is a part of the Theist vs. Atheist series debate between Stephen Hicks and John C. Wright. This is Hicks’s response to Wright’s column. Here are the links to other columns in the series.] To evaluate religion’s track record we need to specify our evaluative benchmarks and identify whether we are evaluating religion generically
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Last week I posted this chart for comparing Clinton, Johnson, and Trump on six dimensions. I scored each from 1 to 10 for each dimension, with 10 being the highest score, and then totaled scores for each candidate. (Here is the blank chart in a Word document.) My scoring is: Here again are the follow-up
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