Audio edition: What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship

How well do entrepreneurial success traits (creative rationality, initiative, courage, perseverance, and so on) map onto virtue ethics? An audio edition [mp3] of my 2009 essay “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship” [pdf], first published in Journal of Private Enterprise. Or at YouTube: Abstract: Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic […]

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Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | Immanuel Kant | Philosophers, Explained by Professor Stephen Hicks

Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Kant is famous for his ethic of strict duty—Categorical Imperatives—for his claim to be basing ethics upon Reason—and for also saying that “All human reason is wholly incompetent to explain this”. So: What is Kantian ethics? And why does Kant argue that it faces severe

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CRITICAL FEMINIST AND RACE THEORY: CATHARINE MacKINNON and DERRICK BELL. Lecture 7 of Postmodern Philosophy [Peterson Academy course]

Lecture Four: Have women and minorities made progress — or is that an illusion? Catharine MacKinnon argues that “Protecting pornography means protecting sexual abuse as speech” in order to maintain the subordination of women. Derrick Bell says “Racial equality is, in fact, not a realistic goal” and so blacks need a new strategy. Themes: Feminism’s

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“Artificial Intelligence Means Entrepreneurial Education *Now*” [new Open College podcast]

My publisher (Possibly Correct Media, out of Toronto, Canada) and I have launched a new season of the Open College podcast. My question in this episode: What will be your comparative advantage in this new era of accelerating robotics and artificial intelligence? “Artificial Intelligence Means Entrepreneurial Education Now“ Episode Number: 56 Date: October 2024 About

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Shining Path terrorism and Marxist Guzmán’s Kantian philosophy

The Peruvian guerrilla and terrorist group Shining Path was founded by a professor of philosophy: Abimael Guzmán, who died in 2021. Shining Path is a Maoist version of Marxism, believing in the inevitability of revolution and the bloody process necessary to see it through. Shining Path is estimated to have killed 11,000 civilians along the

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