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Showing posts with label aristotle. Show all posts
Friday, October 30, 2015

Moderation as Vacuity

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Americans sometimes claim to be moderate in their views.  "I don't believe in abolishing the Fed, for I am a moderate," is an ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

The Altruistic Fallacy

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I recently gave a talk at Brooklyn College's Faculty Day , a delightful annual event at Brooklyn College where about 100 of the faculty ...
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

New Year's Resolution: Ethics Is HR's Business

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I submitted the following article to the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' newsletter, AICPA Career Insider .  New Y...
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Friday, September 10, 2010

Leo Strauss, American Ethical Decline and Aristotle's Highest Hope

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I was just reading Leo Strauss's magnificent Natural Right and History .  Strauss is a first rate thinker, on a par with the great liber...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Aristotle on Money and Happiness

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                                                             Aristotle                                                                    ...
Sunday, May 2, 2010

Origins of the Three Branches of Government in the US Constitution

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A friend asked me to review the antecedents of the three branches of government in the US constitution.  This was not a new idea at the t...
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Aristotle on the Middle Class and the Socialist Banking Oligarchy

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Aristotle is the most prominent ancient advocate of freedom. However, his argument is imperfect because he supports the institution of slave...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Aristotle on the Limitations of Rationality in Ethics

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"Our discussion will be adequate if its clarity matches the subject matter. For we should not seek exactness in all accounts alike...An...
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Monday, November 9, 2009

Disempowering Rather than Disbanding Congress

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Contrairimairi just sent me an e-mail about a Natural News post by Mike Adams. The author argues that because of electronic telecommunicat...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

Aristotle: Federal Government Not A State

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In Politics (1279-81) Aristotle argues that states exist for the sake of a good life. The Declaration of Independence restates this when J...

Aristotle and the Second Amendment II

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"...when citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name--a constitution. ...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Aristotle on Politically Correct Socialism of Ancient Crete

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There was no laissez faire capitalism or system of individual rights in the ancient world, but collectivism and socialism were common. He...

Aristotle on the Right to Bear Arms

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In Book II, chapter 8 of Politics Aristotle describes the city of Hippodamus, the son of Euryphon. Aristotle credits Hippodamus with the in...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Aristotle: Virtue Proves the Existence of God

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"The question might be raised 'Is luck the cause of this very thing--desiring what one should or when one should?' Or will luck...
Monday, January 21, 2008

Toward an Aristotelian Moral Ubermensch

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In his >Mugwumps, Morals and Politics 1864-1920 Gerald McFarland writes (p. 147): " The consequences of the progressive perspective...