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Tag Archives: political economy
Coronavirus / COVID-19: What Is Really Going On? And Why?
Coronavirus / COVID-19: What Is Really Going On? And Why? Based on Dr. Erickson’s video message, a look behind the scenes at what may be the real agenda in shutting down the economy.
Posted in Coronavirus, Political Economy, Science and Technology, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Anthony Fauci, Bill Gates, Bill Gates vaccines, China coronavirus, China COVID-19, Chinese Communist Party, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Donald Trump, Dr. Erickson, Dr. Erickson video, epidemiology, Fauci, global elites, globalism, globalist conspiracy, health education, Internet history of, pandemic, political economy, populism, President Trump, Primary Prevention, public health, vaccines
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Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 4)
Materialism (Vers. 2.0, Part 4) continues the discussion begun in Parts 1 – 3, asking whether any secular moral theories are sufficient to thwart modern tendencies toward relativism, nihilism, and abuses of money and power. Continue reading
Posted in Christian Worldview, Culture, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Political Economy, Uncategorized, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged Ayn Rand, Bentham, capitalism, categorical imperative, Christianity, Comte, deontology, industrial civilization, Kant, Law of Three Stages, libertarianism, materialism, Mill, philosophy of history, political economy, Rawls, social justice, utilitarianism, veil of ignorance
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Auguste Comte’s Law of Three Stages: What It Is, Why the Third Stage is Dying, What Comes Next. (A Major Statement.)
[Note: this may be the longest blog post I have ever made on this site. The result of several weeks of effort, it may be read as a progress report on what may turn into my life’s work: if I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Philosophy, Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged abiogenesis, capitalism vs. socialism, Christianity and Human Rights, Comte, Darwin, decline of the West, Dmitry Orlov, Edward Bernays, existentialism, God and philosophy, Law of Three Stages, materialism, meliorism, political economy, R Buckminster Fuller, science and religion, stages of collapse, stop abortion now, sustainability, The Enlightenment, theory of evolution
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E-Philosophy: A Brief Manifesto
The word philosophy comes to us from two Greek words meaning the love of wisdom. What is wisdom? Knowledge, both theoretical and practical, used in ways both defining and helping to bring about what is good and beneficial in life … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Uncategorized
Tagged analysts, analytic philosophy, Babylon 5, Brian Eno, Delenn, E-Philosophy, E.F. Schumacher, Ervin Laszlo, Feyerabend, George Orwell, Harry Frankfurt, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Jurassic Park, Kierkegaard, Leopold Kohr, Local Futures, Localism, Marcus Aurelius, Morpheus, Nikola Tesla, On Bullshit, Philosophy, political economy, positivism, Remnant, Stoics, The Matrix, Thomas S. Kuhn, Wittgenstein
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What Is It Like to Be a Lost Generation Philosopher (Part 3)
[Continued from Parts One and Two] Given that you pursued a career in academic philosophy, any specific regrets? One big one from my early days. Not turning my MA thesis on Paul Feyerabend into my first book. The idea was … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Higher Education Generally, Libertarianism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Where is Civilization Going?, Where Is Philosophy Going?
Tagged Adjunct, Adjuncts, anarchism, angry white male, Careers in academia, Careers in higher education, Careers in philosophy, Chile, Descartes, Donald Trump, Education in Chile, Ethics, Feyerabend, globalization, Leopold Kohr, libertarianism, Lost Generation, Moving to Chile, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, philosophy of science, political correctness, political economy, Political philosophy, Portraits of American Philosophy, racism, radical feminism, STEM education
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Theses on Political Economy (Pre-Meltdown of 2015?)
A borderline-panic has gripped U.S. markets, which experienced their worst two-day drop since 2008 (roughly 890 points). This may be just a prelude of things to come. Before going on: I sincerely hope this analysis is wrong! It may not … Continue reading
Posted in Political Economy, Where is Civilization Going?
Tagged capitalism vs. socialism, central banks, Chinese economy, consumption, corporatism, corporatocracy, Crash of 2015, critical thinking, decentralization, Donald Trump, Dow plunging, economics, Federal Reserve, fiat money, financial crisis, financialization, Greece, Hayek, higher education, Keynes, Leopold Kohr, libertarianism, Meltdown of 2008, Mises, money printing, political class, political economy, production, Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefellers, skills building, superelite, technofeudalism, two-day drop, welfare state
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Modern Moral Philosophy (Part Two—Is the Libertarian Non-Aggression Principle Adequate As the Foundation for a Systematic Morality)
In Part One (two weeks ago) we surveyed such questions as: are there such things as knowable moral facts, or is morality a cultural artifact? I argued that the former claim makes better sense of what we use ethical language … Continue reading
Posted in Libertarianism, Political Economy
Tagged anarchism, anarchocapitalism, elder care, Ethics, free market competition, free trade, harm principle, homo economicus, John Stuart Mill, libertarian, libertarianism, minarchism, moral philosophy, NAP, non-aggression principle, Oligarchy, On Liberty, our actions affect others, plutocracy, plutocratic oligarchy, political economy, property rights, protectionism, Rockefeller, statism, third party problem
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