Sam Harris writes: Americans have an unhealthy desire to see average people promoted to positions of great authority. No one wants an average neurosurgeon or even an average carpenter, but when it comes time to vest a man or woman with more power and responsibility than any person has held in human history, Americans say they want a regular guy, someone just like themselves. …
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Marxism & morality
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2008/09/marxism-morality.htmlNorm says: In its classical and standard forms Marxism made no real space for ethics; it gave no explicit or independent weight to the political importance of moral principles. Worse than that, some of its most famous thinkers, starting with Marx himself, mocked any overt appeal to morality. …
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Politicians' presumptions
http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2008/09/politicians-presumptions.htmlNick Clegg shows here just how the attitudes of politicians’ differ from those of economists. Speaking against the stamp duty holiday, he says (around 7 min in): We certainly would not have tried to bribe people…into buying into a falling market. …
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HERAKLITES
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Educational Conscription
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La revolución naturalista
http://tabula-blog.blogspot.comHow (not) to argue for equality - Let’s say you want greater equality of incomes within the UK. How do you try to win others round to this view?You could assert the moral case for equality as...
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La revolución naturalista
http://www.revolucionnaturalista.comHow (not) to argue for equality - Let’s say you want greater equality of incomes within the UK. How do you try to win others round to this view?You could assert the moral case for equality as...
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Andrei Bădin: In spatele uşilor închise
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Nationalising mortgage lending
http://sinclairsmusings.blogspot.com/2008/09/nationalising-m...A few days back Chris Dillow asked
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Euro Watch
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Stumbling and Mumbling: Politicians as regular guys
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La revolución naturalista
http://www.revolucionnaturalista.comadmitamos la "individualidad" de agentes colectivos). Creo que necesitamos reconocer la agencia colectiva y la metodología evolucionista que asume la última versión de la sociobiología, sin por ello rendir ningún tributo al colectivismo como afirmación normativa (Dillow distingue muy bien entre el individualismo como ética y el individualismo como metodología): del mismo modo que el altruísmo vence al egoísmo entre grupos, pero no entre individuos, el estado vence a otras formas de organización social
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