by Robert Gressis ___ Libertarians, like Robert Nozick, care most of all about negative freedom, i.e., freedom from interference. If you have little money, but the appropriate agency protects you from force and fraud, then you have negative freedom, even if you find yourself unable to do much of what you want to do. Consequently,... Continue Reading →
by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Crispin Sartwell (Dickinson College) returns to Sophia to talk about the issues he has with compulsory, state-sponsored k-12 education. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYm03FISkM4&ab_channel=ElectricAgora 10:50 - Crispin’s schooling experience in Washington DC 20:20 - The tension between learning and compulsion / Formal Compulsion and oppressive atmospheres 25:50 - Compulsion of minors considered more generally... Continue Reading →
By Kevin Currie-Knight ____ Early in her book, The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t (Portfolio, 2021), Julia Galef comes right out and says: “Motivated reasoning is so fundamental to the way our minds work that it’s almost strange to have a special name for it; perhaps it should just... Continue Reading →
by Kevin Currie-Knight ____ Three new books came out in April 2021 that I have been eager to read (Jesse Singal’s The Quick Fix; Julia Galef’s The Scout Mindset; and How to Keep an Open Mind, Richard Bett’s abridged/annotated translation of the works of Sextus Empiricus) Upon having read them, it occurred to me that... Continue Reading →
Originally aired as a part of the Sofia Channel, on MeaningofLife.TV. http://meaningoflife.tv/programs/current/sophia
