Close readings and commentaries on the major thinkers. Follow at the CEE Video Channel: The 30 in the first series include: Full Series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kR5Ove3tI&list=PLurzsfhvI4oq3fnsjxS3j9fmlYlZQOMVl
*Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 3: El liberalismo es
El liberalismo es amoralmente egoísta [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español] Read More »
Locke and Mill, that is. Locke on freedom of choice for students: “great care is to be taken, that [education] be never made as a business to him, nor he look on it as a task. We naturally, as I said, even from our cradles, love liberty, and have therefore an aversion to many things,
John and John on liberal psychology Read More »
Seven categories. Five only in each. Works that I love or learned from or influenced me or that I return to regularly. Biography and AutobiographyAnthony Holden, TchaikovskyRobert Massie, Peter the GreatAdrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin: The Life of a Tormented EvolutionistJames Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small [a veterinarian in Yorkshire]Walt Whitman, Song of
Great Books — My Recommended Reading List Read More »
In his open letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615), Galileo offered a defense of science against the prevailing heavy hand of religious orthodoxy: “But I do not feel obliged to believe that that same God who has endowed us with senses, reason, and intellect has intended to forgo their use and by some other
Galileo’s modern compromise: Letting science work *with* religion Read More »
Reprising this chart which integrates the major answers to the question: What makes liberal capitalism good? The chart diagrams the positive claims about liberal capitalism by its defenders — John Locke, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, and others. For elaboration, see my book Liberalism Pro and
Justifying liberal capitalism — flowchart Read More »
One-minute introduction to the series: Full Series playlist. Philosophers in the first series: Immanuel Kant Plato Galileo Galilei Ayn Rand Jean-Jacques Rousseau René Descartes Jean-Paul Sartre Socrates Martin Heidegger Thomas Aquinas Arachne and Athena Aristotle Albert Camus Friedrich Nietzsche John Dewey Sigmund Freud G.W.F. Hegel William James Søren Kierkegaard John Locke Karl Marx John Stuart
Trailer for *Philosophers, Explained* Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. Argumento 14: El capitalismo liberal es el
El Capitalismo Liberal es el Sistema Más Justo [*Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español] Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. Argumento 11: La tolerancia aumenta bajo el
La Tolerancia Aumenta Bajo el Capitalismo Liberal [*Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español] Read More »
Tomorrow I’m leading a live, open seminar on Kant’s views on education. In Britain and America in the 1700s, the most influential philosopher of education was John Locke, with his Some Thoughts Concerning Education. In France, it was Jean-Jacques Rousseau with his Emile. But in the German states, it was Johann Georg Sulzer, with his
Kant and Sulzer on Obedience in Education Read More »