All Posts Tagged With: "philosophy"
American Exceptionalism: Is it Nationalism in Disguise?
I’ve been disturbed lately by the increased usage of the phrase “American Exceptionalism.” One longstanding critique of conservatism is that the word “conservative” has no substantial meaning beyond indicating a resistance to change. Conservatives therefore spend too much time trying to backfill an empty concept with whatever ideas they need to pass the popular agenda item [...]
9Mar2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 4 comments | ContinuedWhere’s the Bipartisanship?
James Fallows had an interesting post yesterday called “Why bipartisanship can’t work.” Since it is a long post I’ll summarize the arguments as I see it: Party discipline is difficult in American Politics because candidates raise their own money and can take the party label without the approval of the party. (Academics call this a [...]
2Feb2010 | Mike Van Winkle | 1 comment | ContinuedIs the Name “Capitalism” Worth Keeping? Part 2
The deeper problem with the terms “capitalism” and “socialism” is that they don’t indicate the institutional arrangements under the systems would operate
7Jan2010 | Steven Horwitz | 21 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 | ContinuedBook Review: The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics, by Mark Lilla
The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics by Mark Lilla TNRB Press • 2001 • 230 pages • $24.95 Reviewed by Tibor R. Machan Mark Lilla’s book The Reckless Mind chronicles some of the most egregious corruptions of philosophy. The life and thought of Martin Heidegger (along with Hannah Arendt and Karl Jaspers), Carl Schmitt, Walter [...]
29Jan2003 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | ContinuedWe’re All Rawlsians Now!
In the 1970s Richard Nixon famously remarked, “We’re all Keynesians now.” Fortunately, the president overestimated the long-run influence of John Maynard Keynes’s ideas among economists. For modern philosophers, it might be appropriate to rephrase Nixon’s line and say, “We’re all Rawlsians now.” John Rawls, the Harvard University philosophy professor, truly has had as much influence [...]
1Jun2002 | Robert A. Lawson | 1 comment | ContinuedFreedom and Morality in the Plays of Tom Stoppard
Norman Barry is professor of social and political theory at the University of Buckingham in the UK. He is the author of Business Ethics (Macmillan, 1998). Most people who were dazzled by the verbal dexterity and comic genius revealed in Tom Stoppard’s Oscar-winning movie, Shakespeare in Love (his co-writer, Marc Norman, provided the idea but [...]
1Aug1999 | Norman Barry | 1 comment | ContinuedDoes Survival Trump Morality?
To the Editor: I welcomed the article “Philosophy 1 On 1” (The Freeman, March 1999), because James Otteson makes the moral case for a free society. Usually, libertarians focus upon utilitarian issues, seemingly unaware that we often lose on this basis because our adversaries have taken the moral high ground. Moreover, frequently the very cause [...]
1Jun1999 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Culture of Classical Liberalism
Tadd Wilson is a freelance writer in Fairfax, Virginia. Despite what is taught in most universities, the essentially classical liberal ideas of free-market economics and limited government have won the basic test of any doctrine: does it beat the best alternative? The evidence is clear, whether in the collapse of the former Soviet Union’s planned [...]
1Dec1998 | Tadd Wilson | 6 comments | ContinuedBook Review: Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life by Michael Novak
The relationship between economics, business, philosophy, and theology periodically received serious attention from the time of Adam Smith into the early twentieth century. Albeit with a handful of very valuable exceptions, this discussion unfortunately has been on a general decline ever since. With his book Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life, Michael [...]
1Apr1997 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Philosophy Of Reading
The Executive Vice-President of the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Company finds time both for serious reading and for writing Franklin D. Roosevelt, while President, called on Justice Holmes one evening. Mrs. Holmes told the President that the Justice would be glad to see him, although it was interfering with the Justice’s reading program. Roosevelt, when ushered [...]
1Jan1956 | Ralph M. Besse | 0 comments | Continued-
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