Here are Acton’s famous words: “I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption, it is the other way, against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make […]
Power does not corrupt Read More »
Troubles mounting in Argentina due to a government plagued by corruption scandals and heavy-handed, dysfunctional economic intervention and controls.
Do cry for me, Argentina Read More »
A perfect send up from the Onion: “Pre-Game Coin Toss Makes Jaguars Realize Randomness Of Life. After comprehending the capricious nature of fate, the Jacksonville Jaguars could not go through with the charade of playing a meaningless football game.” (Thanks to E.F. for the link.)
Football and continental philosophy Read More »
My 15-lecture series on the Philosophy of Education in a dedicated playlist at YouTube. The videos are still also available at my site here. Thanks to Chris Vaughan for setting this up.
New channel for my Philosophy of Education lectures Read More »
An instructive trio of essays by economists at Cato Unbound about Austrian economics’ reputation — especially Mises’s praxeological version — for being strongly a priori rationalist: Is Austrian economics anti-empiricist? Steve Horwitz says no. Bryan Caplan says yes. George Selgin also says yes. To Selgin’s series of quotations from Mises, I’d add this one from
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In the history of ethics, the debate over the meaning of life has generated four broad positions: 1. The meaning of life is to flourish by creating value both materially and psychologically through one’s career, friendships, loves, and avocations. Examples here include Aristotelian eudaimonism, some sub-types of utilitarianism, and Objectivism.The good life should be a
Genghis Khan on joy and the meaning of life Read More »
Ronald Hamowy has died. He was a student of Friedrich Hayek’s, educated at the University of Chicago, historian, libertarian, Cato fellow, and emeritus professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. I knew him slightly as my editor when I wrote the article on “The Enlightenment” for The Encyclopedia of Libertarianism, which he published with
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As of September 9, 2012: Years: Number of US troops killed 2001-2004: 161 deaths 2005-2008: 469 deaths 2009-2012: 1,484 deaths Why the lack of attention to the rising death toll? Is the nation war weary? Or merely uninformed? If uninformed, have the media decided the war is less newsworthy? Or less objectionable? Where has the
The war death toll in Afghanistan Read More »