Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
It is my view that scholarly writing has several distinctive characteristics: It shows careful reading of primary sources and a thorough
Morally there is a kind of symmetry between the two types of reparations cases: In general, there is no justice in blaming a group for the
If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political
Ayn Rand is not a revered figure in academic philosophy at this time. But there is a growing body of scholarship on her ideas by academic
"Individualism" is a term for classifying theories, such as ethical or social theories. Any theory that places the individual foremost or
One of the strangest stories in English literature is the rise and fall of Joseph Addison’s Cato, which was first performed in London in....
This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals
September/October 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism . By Joshua Muravchik. (San Francisco, Calif...
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand acknowledged Aristotle as the only philosopher to whom she was indebted, the father of logic who defined "the bas
Transhumanism (e.g. H+ ) or Extropianism is an ideological coalition centered on the idea that, in the near future, substantial....
Libertarianism is the political position that all human relationships should be voluntary, i.e. not subject to the initiation of force by...
Antes da filosofia durante dezenas de milhares de anos, os seres humanos não viam o mundo como nós o vemos. Porque é que o Nilo se ergueu e inundou o campo
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable
O meu tema é que, na paisagem intelectual alemã, Kant está tão próximo do pensamento iluminista quanto se aproxima dele. Da perspectiva da maioria dos
A minha filosofia, em essência, é o conceito do homem como um ser heróico, com a sua própria felicidade como o propósito moral da sua vida, com
Para viver, o homem deve agir; para agir, deve fazer escolhas; para fazer escolhas, deve definir um código de valores; em ordem.
Aristóteles originou o tipo de teoria literária que enfatiza as características objectivas dos textos e as intenções autoriais que aqueles....
Maria Montessori, a primeira mulher a formar-se na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Roma, tornou-se médica em 1896. O seu primeiro posto foi no
Marxism and Objectivism are similar in very few respects: —They are systems of thought. But Marxism is primarily a political and economic