… as most American intellectuals remain captive to ideas generated in France and Germany a century ago. See: Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Marcuse, and Foucault.
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This image and caption are wonderfully revelatory about how many options young people (especially) now have and how our expectations for our work lives have risen. The caption is sarcastic, suggesting that settling for a job in such a place is beneath one’s expectations and aspirations. Great. Yet when we look closely at the work
Aspirations — how rich we are Read More »
How media report statistics according to their philosophy: Enlightenment headline: SCIENCE and CAPITALISM a great success. Jaded-feminist headline: The PATRIARCHY encouraging women to be BABY-MAKING MACHINES. Socialist-Marxist headline: Europeans gain by EXPLOITING poor women in the THIRD WORLD. Postmodern headline: NO news here — “HEALTH” and “PROGRESS” mere SUBJECTIVE narratives.
Mortality headlines [humor alert] 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 8: Más individuos sobresalientes florecen bajo
A good, informal list: https://paulbloom.net/TeachingAdvice.pdf.
Good teaching advice from Paul Bloom Read More »
I’m having a trip down memory lane, having come across my grad-school notes on John Dewey’s 1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy. Yes, personal computers had been invented by then, but I was in transition from my old-style card-catalogue method. In part these caught my attention as I am preparing for my upcoming lecture on Dewey for
Dewey: philosophy is a social-emotional after-the-fact enterprise Read More »
This one is true: “Activist lectures U. North Carolina students about ‘right-handed privilege’“. And I am a victim. Reparations checks will be accepted.
Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. Yet frequently Nietzsche rejects individualism and elements that go into a full account of individualism. For example, note this from his The Struggle Between Science and Wisdom: “Beginning with Socrates, the individual all at once began to take himself too seriously” (SSW 132). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is
Was Nietzsche really individualist? Post-Socrates version Read More »