From Ukraine, Roman Skaskiw asks: “One of my great fears is that the postmodernists, like the Bolsheviks, are correct in prioritizing power over meaning. Those who believe in meaning exhaust themselves making arguments to people who do not believe in truth — modernist argument against a post-modernist ideology. What if a thousand slogans and bad […]
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Old-time racists and sexists said: “Clear thinking — it’s not for woman, minorities, and gays.” Social-Justice Wokists today say: “Exactly!!” Rigorous thinking, according to some, is a virtue that leads to safe high-voltage electrical systems, pharmaceutical doses that are precisely calibrated, and bridges that stay up. Not so, says engineering Professor Donna Riley. Rather it
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University of Maryland historian Holly Brewer’s very good overview of Locke’s role in English slavery in the mid-1600s and his philosophical opposition as developed by the 1680s: “Slavery-entangled philosophy.” John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical? Related: My other posts on Locke. “The Stain of
Early modern philosopher Francis Bacon opens his “Of Marriage and Single Life” essay this way: “He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly, the best works, and of the greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried
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Evergreen graduate Benjamin Boyce’s insider documentary: “The Compete Evergreen Story.” Shaun Cammack at Heterodox Academy: “When race is understood as both the foundation of the self and the determinant of cognitive authority, it follows that there is simply no such thing as a dyadic interaction. Interaction between people of different races is understood as inherently intercollective.
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Saturday at noon Central. Sign up here: https://thinkspot.com/event_signup?event=MJuLoQ. Questions posted so far: SLAVERY 1. [T]he current reparations demands from more organized BLM representatives: what are your thoughts on the current reparations debate? Do you foresee radical forms or lesser forms of it manifesting in policy? Are you in agreement with certain forms of it? Do
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Does technology put people out of work? A common fear — but consider the Internet. While the Internet “seemingly decimated industries—music, media, retail, travel, and taxis—a study by McKinsey Global Research found the net created 2.6 new jobs for each one it extinguished.”* My thinkspot lecture tomorrow (Saturday) is on the impact robotics and artificial
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Waterfall is a guided series of courses for everyone interested in issues upon which Objectivism has something distinctive and important to say. The second course: Socialism. Examine the aspirations, arguments, strategies, and disasters of socialist theory and practice—as well as explore the strongest criticisms of socialism. Authors include Ayn Rand, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Robert
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My thinkspot lecture this month is on the impact robotics and artificial intelligence are having and will have on our careers. Robotics and A.I. are poised to transform our jobs. Or are they? In this discussion, I will address our brave new world prospects: Will high-tech put most of us out of work and consign
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Dr. Andrew Colgan, a Canadian philosopher of education, has written a concise overview of the themes and arguments of Explaining Postmodernism. The Pocket Guide is available at Amazon in e-book and paperback and other at outlets. Here is my preface to the work: A generation ago, postmodernism was merely an intellectual opposition to grand Enlightenment claims
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