Review of Leonidas Zelmanovitz,The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions Lexington Books, 2015, 447 pp.Reviewed by Stephen HicksFirst published at Law and Liberty, edited by Richard Reinsch and Lauren Weiner. Money is funny, the old saying goes, both in the cognitive puzzles it generates and the motivational extremes of human […]
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Joseph Goebbels, Ph.D., was Reich Minister of Propaganda for the National Socialist government from 1933 to 1945 and, after Hitler, the second or third most powerful man in Germany. “According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block.”
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Eight: Realism and Education. What did the great Realist philosophers 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: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation
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On February 17, I’ll be speaking in Milwaukee. I’m honored to be part of Wisconsin Forum’s line-up for the 2021-2022 season. My question will be: The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many are suspicious or outright hostile, and often authoritarian policies prevail over genuinely
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I received this email on February 1, 2022:Hi Prof. Hicks, I saw your Facebook post about Jordan Peterson’s resignation and noticed XX’s comment. While I’m uncomfortable speaking up publicly about it for fear of retaliation against me from my faculty peers, I did want to note that I recently had a chair of a search
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The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, was a student-led initiative to increase and enhance the free-speech rights of students. Long-time political activist and University of California, Berkeley, professor Albert Lepawsky, said this: “The main task we face is preserving the university not merely as a free political community but primarily as an institution that is privileged
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From The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951): “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.” Why? “In an ever-changing,
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Suppose that you’re a single mother living in a rough part of the city. The father of your child is not around. You’d like to work, but it’s a challenge to fit that with your commitments as a mother. Yet you have ambition and energy — and an entrepreneurial idea: Other women in your area
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We’re celebrating this milestone reached today: The original documentary was produced in 2006 and had success with Netflix. The print book came out in 2010, followed by several translations. This audiobook edition was produced in 2013. We were thrilled when it hit one million views, so this is off the charts. (And for a philosophy
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. “Postmodernism” is a big, sprawling concept and movement — what does it mean? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big
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