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Os que só reclamam e os problemas ambientais

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Algumas partes do mundo realmente são infernos ambientais. São locais sujos e exauridos, tornando-os insalubres e economicamente insustentáveis. Nós podemos argumentar sobre aseveridade dos problemas de vários lugares; contudo, eu quero focar em outro aspecto do debate: a determinação precisa das causas da degradação, de forma que possamos focar produtivamente na busca de soluções. Infelizmente, […]

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Video Interview with John Chisholm — Transcript

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Interview conducted at Rockford University by Stephen Hicks and sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. Hicks: Our guest today is John Chisholm. John is a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, now based in San Francisco, involved in a number of ventures. And he was here today talking to the Business and Economic Ethics

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Making Life Meaningful Without Religion [new Theist vs. Atheist series column]

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The opening of my latest column in the Theist vs. Atheist debate series at EveryJoe: “The quest for a meaningful life comes naturally to us. As infants we delight in exploring the world and developing our powers — hearing and seeing and tasting, crawling, eye-hand coordination, vocalizing, and social interaction with parents, siblings, and family

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Upcoming keynote speech (and one other) in Nanjing, China

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I will be participating in the 2nd International Conference on CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance, Building New Bridges Between Business & Society, to be held in Nanjing, P.R., China, from July 29 to 31 and hosted by the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics. My contributions to the conference will be two talks. One will

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Piotr Kostyło’s review of *Nietzsche and the Nazis*

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Professor Piotr Kostyło of Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, published a review of Nietzsche and the Nazis. The text of the review follows: Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism The forty-five years of communism in Poland (1944-1989) were marked by the government reminding society of the atrocities committed during

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On Natural Morality and Religious Amoralism [new Theist vs. Atheist series column]

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The opening of my latest column in the Theist vs. Atheist series debate at EveryJoe: “In my judgment, issues of morality are the most difficult in philosophy. They are intellectually challenging, as everything about the human condition is relevant to them, and they are emotionally gripping, as our highest values are always at stake. “So

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On Greek Debts and Doing What’s Moral [new The Good Life column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “The Greek mess is complicated, but in sorting through complex messes it’s useful to start with simpler cases and build up. “All sides in the discussion are appealing to moral considerations about responsibility, fairness, and prudence. Part of the debate is over what those principles mean. An

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Mussolini and Gentile’s *The Doctrine of Fascism*

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[This text is also available via my Texts in Philosophy page.] Benito Mussolini and Giovanni Gentile The Doctrine of Fascism (1932) Like all sound political conceptions, Fascism is action and it is thought; action in which doctrine is immanent, and doctrine arising from a given system of historical forces in which it is inserted, and

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