All Posts Tagged With: "logic"
State-Mandated Thinking
Is this statement true? “If SpongeBob SquarePants is the mayor of Minneapolis, then Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo.” It is. On the other hand, this is not: “If Napoleon lost the Battle of Waterloo, then Spongebob Squarepants is the Mayor of Minneapolis.” Confused? Welcome to our government-school curricula. In the July/August 2011 issue of [...]
4Jan2012 | Peter McAllister | 6 comments | ContinuedCan We Be Free If Reason Is the Slave of the Passions?
The writings of David Hume (1711–1776) are a treasure trove for those eager to find pithy, polished memorable quotes to bolster their arguments in favor of freedom, justice, and against the arrogance and follies of governments. It is difficult to resist the youthful élan of his major philosophical work, A Treatise of Human Nature (1739–1740), [...]
1Oct2007 | Frank van Dun | 0 comments | ContinuedDialectics and Liberty
Ten years ago the first two books of what has become known as my “Dialectics and Liberty” trilogy were published. Those books—Marx, Hayek, and Utopia (SUNY Press) and Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical (Penn State Press)—together with the culminating work, Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism (Penn State Press), constitute a defense of dialectical method [...]
1Sep2005 | Chris Matthew Sciabarra | 3 comments | ContinuedHeart over Mind: The Death of JFK, Jr.
Eric Nolte is an airline pilot, a writer, and a classically trained pianist and composer of contemporary concert music. E-mail him at ericnolte@compuserve.com. Because I am an airline captain for a major carrier, I was deluged by friends with questions from the moment John F. Kennedy, Jr.’s airplane disappeared last July. “Why on earth was [...]
1Feb2000 | Eric Nolte | 0 comments | Continued-
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