I’ve received colorful correspondence from people upset with me over a dozen philosophical issues — especially from those who think Kant was Enlightenment/objectivist/liberal, Nietzsche was thoroughly individualist, Rand was antisocial, and that postmoderns are the good guys — as well as those who chastise me for supporting neither Trump nor Biden. Then there are those […]
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Kudos to Alfange for writing this, though I would like to see this generalized as a creed of human dignity and not merely an American one. An American’s Creed By Dean Alfange I do not choose to be a common man It is my right to be uncommon—if I can. I seek opportunity—not security. I
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Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (438 U.S. 265) is a landmark decision about affirmative action decided in 1978 by the US Supreme Court. It upheld the lower court’s affirming that Allan Bakke should be admitted to UCD’s medical school and that racial quotas were unconstitutional but also upheld affirmative action, allowing race
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The absurdist Samuel Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1969. He’s most famous for Waiting for Godot (a play in which pretty much nothing happens in the first act, only to be repeated in the second), was also the author of a novel entitled Molloy. Here is the main character, Molloy, reminiscing
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. Original English publication: “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” in Cato Unbound. La respuesta es complicada. Cualquier lectura de la gran masa de escritos de Kant nos ofrece inicialmente una mezcla de argumentos liberales y anti liberales que se encuentran e conflicto. Él defendió
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In response to other socialists who claim that National Socialism isn’t real socialism because it doesn’t outright nationalize everything. Hitler: “Of what importance is all that, if I range men firmly within a discipline they cannot escape? Let them own land or factories as much as they please. The decisive factor is that the State,
An ethics question: Suppose that you’re part of an organization that: (1) spends other people’s money, (2) which is taken from them by threat of force. Further, (3) your organization hasn’t produced a balanced budget for decades, and (4) it uses accounting techniques that would send most people to jail. Now the question: What is
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Apparently the letters of my name are quite fertile in generating significant possibilities. * Highlighting some art: Sketch He Pins * Due to showering regularly: Stench He Skip * When writing about some kinds of art: Kitsch He Pens * A game followed by a nap: Chess Then Kip * When getting a sun burn:
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How different are Stephen Hicks’s and Jordan Peterson’s views on the origins of the Enlightenment? Was Christianity essential or a hindrance?
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. El drama de la voluntad de poder Este episodio está inspirado en mi re-lectura de The Will to Power de Nietzsche. Estoy leyendo la traducción más reciente, realizada por el profesor R. Kevin Hill y publicada por Penguin en 2017. Es un libro increíble. La
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