From YouGov, a fascinating presentation of survey results: “Americans overestimate the size of minority groups and underestimate the size of most majority groups.”
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Worth reading: The full text of Young’s judicious 2022 article for Cato Policy Report. Related: Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism for an overview of the Enlightenment against which the postmoderns are reacting. Full audiobook here. My Enlightenment Vision flowchart is pitched at a high level of abstraction, showing schematically how the philosophical revolution of the
Cathy Young’s “The Return of the Anti‐Enlightenment” Read More »
My six-dimensional explanation, from the Philosophy of Education course series.
To define *Post-* Modernism, first define *Modernism* Read More »
These are clever: Zeno and BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE – Lays, 1981 Existentialism and IT IS. ARE YOU? – The Independent, 1987 Ayn Rand and HAVE IT YOUR WAY – Burger King, 1973 Rene Descartes and I THINK, THEREFORE IBM – IBM, 1988 Tertullian and IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING – Adidas, 2004 Plato and IT’S
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Case #1: Suppose a man has a debilitating genetic condition that a small percentage of his children would inherit. Suppose also that he is moderately sexually active and so could impregnate several women over the next few years. And suppose that you have an injection that could render him sterile.But he refuses to take it.
Comparing injections for sterilization, STD’s, and Covid Read More »
1. Each individual brings to the starting line whatever assets they have—and the race is on. To the swiftest go the prizes. 2. But not everyone starts the race with an equal chance to win. So we should handicap the fastest to equalize the abilities of all. 3. Life should a collective going forward together,
What kind of race is life? Four one-line answers Read More »
These two images are 82 years apart. A German and a Soviet officer shaking hands at the end of the Invasion of Poland, October 1939. 2. Poles saying no to both German National Socialism and Russian Soviet Socialism in 2021. Historical memory is strong in Poland.
Germany-Poland-Russia 1939 and 2021 Read More »
Individual and institutional versions of racism exist (though “structural” and “systematic” do not). An example of the institutional kind is Social Security, the forced retirement savings plan mandated by the US government: Suppose a black man and a white man start working at age 18, doing the same kind of work and earning the same
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Ten: Behaviorism and Education. What did the major Behaviorist thinkers, and B.F. Skinner in particular, believe and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality:
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Nine: Pragmatism and Education. What did the great Pragmatist philosophers, and John Dewey in particular, believe and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality:
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