. I am a big fan of C. Bradley Thompson’s America’s Revolutionary Mind. Published in 2019, it is a moral history of the founding era that will stand the test of time. Thompson is a transplanted Canadian who is a Political Science Ph.D. now teaching at Clemson University, South Carolina. Related: Thomas Jefferson on Slavery. […]
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These books were published in 1776: Thomas Paine, Common Sense Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Adam Smith, On the Wealth of Nations Thomas Jefferson et al., The Declaration of Independence Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie (published in its entirety for first time) David Hume, Autobiography Also in 1776, in Paris Antoine Laurent Lavoisier
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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2020. (Original English.) Stephen R. C. Hicks es Profesor en Filosofía en la Universidad de Rockford. Su libro más reciente es Explicando el Postmodernismo: Escepticismo y Socialismo Desde Rousseau a Foucault (Ockham’s Razor, 2011). Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada.
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Like larger-than-life artists, athletes, scientists, movie stars, and entrepreneurs, the United States of America generates polarized love-hate responses. The U.S. was born committed to making a new nation based consciously on moral ideals rather than the happenstance of historical evolution: Individuals’ lives are their own to live. They are free to choose their own goals
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Theist vs. Atheist: What Should You Believe? is a seven-part series of articles by two authors, John C. Wright and Stephen R. C. Hicks, in which they debate seven key issues in religion. On Natural Morality and Religious Amoralism By Stephen R. C. Hicks In my judgment, issues of morality are the most difficult in
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Olympe de Gouges’s first-wave feminism and her The Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791). The first two items: “1. Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be based only on common utility. 2. The purpose of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible
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One century ago, Adolf Hitler fighting in the Great War. He was a good soldier — he would be promoted to the rank of corporal, be wounded two times, and be awarded six medals. And with him during the war he had the writings of philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer. The image of Hitler reading Schopenhauer is
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[This is a Portuguese translation of Part 7 of the Theist vs. Atheist series, originally published in English at EveryJoe. In the following final round of the debate, John Wright begins and Stephen Hicks replies.] De forma geral, a religião tem sido algo bom ou ruim para a humanidade? Por John C. Wright Tradução de
[This column is a part of the Theist vs. Atheist debate series between Stephen Hicks and John C. Wright. Here Hicks responds to Wright’s column about whether religion is essential to ethics.] In my judgment, issues of morality are the most difficult in philosophy. They are intellectually challenging, as everything about the human condition is
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[This is a Portuguese translation of Part 4 of the Theist vs. Atheist debate series, originally published in English at EveryJoe.com.] A religião é imprescindível para a moralidade pessoal? Por John C. Wright Tradução de Matheus Pacini Revisão de Mateus Bernardino Até o momento neste debate, temos o seguinte: o Sr. Hicks e eu concordamos