[This is a Portuguese translation of “Will the Real Scrooge Please Stand Up?, first published in The Good Life.] Todos nós sabemos da história de Ebenezer Scrooge, certo? A obra Um Conto de Natal de Charles Dickens gerou uma variedade espantosa de interpretações, e como a maioria dos contos, as interpretações frequentemente nos dizem muito […]
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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Recently, I met a young man in Miami. Instead of taking a taxi I decided to try Uber for the first time. Rafael (not his real name) showed up a few minutes later. Traffic was bad in rush-hour Miami, and along the way we started chatting. “He
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Theist vs. Atheist — What Should You Believe? John C. Wright and I have completed our series of articles debating key issues in religion. The full seven-round series is available at EveryJoe.com’s dedicated page and here at my Theist vs. Atheist page. Translations into Portuguese are forthcoming. Here is the Table of Contents with links
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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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Here is the flyer (click to enlarge) for a two-day event in Buenos Aires: The conference is sponsored by Fundación para la Responsabilidad Intelectual, Junior Achievement Argentina, and the John Templeton Foundation. I will be speaking (in English) on “Cómo las Revoluciones se Ganan o se Pierden,” with simultaneous translation into Spanish by Maria Herminia
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Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph. D. Tradução pro Matheus Pacini e revisão por Vinicius Cintra Originally published in English as “Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics”, Journal of Accounting, Ethics & Public Policy 3:1 (2003), pp. 1-26 Introdução: negócios e uma sociedade livre Os defensores de uma sociedade livre consideram os negócios como parte integral
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[I wrote the following in 1999 in response to several people who wrote to me with objections to my and others’ use of The Will to Power in interpreting Nietzsche.] Dear [ ]: Every word in The Will to Power was written by Nietzsche in his notebooks of 1883-1888. Some of the notes were his
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I recommend this strong piece by Nick Cohen in Standpoint magazine out of Britain, on the downward spiral of the anti-free-speech movement. Related: Three of my recent pieces on the state of free speech: * On the German decision: “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?“ (Portuguese translation.) * On censorship in British universities:
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This week I will be in lovely Buenos Aires to give a series of talks. I’ll be lecturing more formally at ESEADE university on themes out of my Nietzsche and the Nazis. My specific topic is “Did the Nazis Use or Abuse Nietzsche’s Philosophy?” (A Spanish translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis may be in
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In English, here is Magdalena Wędzińska’s review [pdf] of the Polish edition of Nietzsche and the Nazis. The review is forthcoming in Polish in Forum Oświatowe, a leading Polish education periodical. Here is more information about other editions and translations of Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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