Next week I’ll be in Argentina to give four invited talks. August 18: Buenos Aires, conference on my recently-translated book Explicando el Posmodernismo, la crisis del socialismo, with comments by Guillermo Yeatts and Eduardo Marty. My talk title: “Populists and Postmoderns: How Philosophy Empowers Bad Politics.” August 18. Leading a roundtable discussion on “Why the […]
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A striking pairing of quotations from Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes by Lynn Garafola (Oxford University Press, 1989). First, on the innovativeness: “In the History of twentieth-century ballet, no company has had so profound and far-reaching an influence as the Ballets Russes. It existed for only twenty years—from 1909 to 1929—but in those two decades it transformed
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Over the next two weeks, I’m giving five talks in Santiago and one in Puerto Montt, Chile August 16, Faculty of Economics, University of Chile. “Ethics for Entrepreneurial Business Leaders.” (Drawing on my article “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.”) August 17: Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez: “Why Entrepreneurial Engineers Have Been This Generation’s Unacknowledged Ethical Leaders.” August 17:
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An ancient myth tells of a poor young man who found a magical ring. The young man’s name was Gyges. He was a shepherd, responsible for tending his village’s sheep as they grazed in the summer meadows away in the hills. His job was lonely, poorly paid, and most of the time he smelled like
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[This is a Portuguese translation of “Third-Way Politics and Its Bitter Fruits”, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Em 1998, o então presidente Bill Clinton anunciou: “nós superamos o debate estéril entre os que dizem que o governo é o problema e os que dizem que o governo é a solução. Meus concidadãos americanos, nós
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Here is the re-designed page for my publications in Portuguese, with my book on postmodernism and my articles and videos on art, business ethics, economics, religion, politics, and philosophy. Much thanks to Matheus Pacini, Vinicius Cintra, Ronaldo Bassit, Eli Vieira, as well as the team at Callis Editora for making this possible.
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Intelligence is a human being’s most important asset. One sign of this is the amount of time we spend educating our young. For some species, such as squirrels and hawks, the learning necessary to become a full adult is acquired in a matter of months. For more intelligent species, such as chimpanzees and elephants, it
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Here are seven interviews I’ve done for Kaizen with Latin American entrepreneurs, covering the business areas of construction, agriculture, logistics, education, aluminum, and oil and gas. * Entrepreneurship in Latin America: Guillermo Yeatts. * Entrepreneurship and Montessori Education: Berni Jensen. * Entrepreneurship and Infrastructure in Brazil: Interview with Brasília Guaíba president André Loiferman. * Entrepreneurial
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[This is a Portuguese translation of “Loving Money and Books — Which is More Evil?”, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Eu trabalhei no setor de construção civil por alguns anos antes de retornar à universidade. Meus companheiros trabalhavam muito, e um espírito de virilidade masculina prevalecia entre eles. Cervejas, pickups e pesca eram parte
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Here is a new page for my books and articles translated into Spanish. My thanks to Rosa Pelz and the team at Barbarroja Ediciones, as well as to Walter Jerusalinsky, Alejandro Espinoza, and María Marty for their work to make this possible. More translations are in the works.
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