[Below is the text of William James’s “The Moral Equivalent of War” [pdf].] The Moral Equivalent of War By William James [Based on a speech delivered at Stanford University in 1906. Published in 1910.] The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply grounded […]
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I went on a spring-day drive through rural Illinois and ended up in Ogle County’s Oregon, a farm town along the Rock River that is also the county seat. The north side of the courthouse square has a war memorial, with two slabs of granite engraved with the names of those who died in the
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[This is a Portuguese translation of “When Altruism Becomes Pathological”, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Quem é mais propenso a trapacear — praticantes de esportes individuais ou de esportes coletivos? Um experimento fascinante realizado pelo professor Sharon K. Stoll, publicado no Chronicle of Higher Education, compara atletas de esportes individuais como golfe ou tênis simples
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por Stephen Hicks [This is a Spanish translation of “How to Tame Religious Terrorists”, originally published in English at EveryJoe and translated into Portuguese here.] Derrotar a un enemigo, como al politizado Islam, implica una batalla en varios frentes: policial, militar, diplomático, cultural y filosófico. Toda pelea es provocada por desacuerdos locales de corto plazo. Pero
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My short article introducing business ethics, “The Best Work of the Best Minds,” has been republished as a Kindle e-publication and as an Audible audio edition narrated by Scott A. Smith. It was originally published in the IOS Journal. More of my publications in business ethics are at my Business Ethics page.
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As with sex and money — and most of the important matters in life — many silly things are said about power. Perhaps the granddaddy of those silly things is the oft-quoted phrase, Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. There is an important truth that Lord Acton’s phrase tries to capture. But taken literally
[This is a Portuguese translation of Stephen Hicks’s “How to Tame Religious Terrorists”, originally published in English at EveryJoe.] Derrotar um inimigo como o Islã politizado é uma batalha de múltiplas frentes — policial, militar, diplomática, cultural e filosófica. Toda luta começa com desavenças locais e de curto prazo. Entretanto, conflitos generalizados de longa duração são
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A new entry in the ongoing contest to find the longest sentences written in the history of philosophy. Submitted by Ken Brown, a 239-word self-reflective monster from G. E. Moore’s “A Defence of Common Sense”: ‘In other words what (2) asserts is only (what seems an obvious enough truism) that each of us (meaning by
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Rounds one and two, I hope, of a good discussion of Rand’s philosophical fiction. Sarah Skwire: “Ayn Rand, John Steinbeck, and Fiction with a ‘Message’: The Problems with Didactic Fiction.” Onkar Ghate: “Is Ayn Rand a Writer of Didactic Fiction?” One interesting sub-issue to me arises from the fact that many readers do experience Rand’s
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You’ve heard the claim: “Deregulation caused the crisis.” In the years leading up to 2008, the story goes, bad economists convinced bad politicians to deregulate the money/banking/finance sector of the economy, and bad capitalists then enjoyed an orgy of greed that caused the system to go haywire. Nobel-Prize-winners Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman have signed
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