Politics
Economics and Politics: The US Economic System
Adam Smith’s free-market ideas are so well supported by the mathematics behind them, that it might make you wonder why markets don’t work perfectly all the time. […]
Philosophy
Philosophy
Overpopulation and Birth Control Methods
Overpopulation cannot be solved relying on people’s common sense or individuals being motivated by the greater common good. One way or the other, the state has to intervene- passively or coercively. […]
Philosophy
Can Euthanasia Solve the Problem of Overpopulation?
When it comes to the issue of controlling overpopulation, specially in the genre of dystopia, euthanasia seems to be the favorite solution. It is easy to impose in states controlled by totalitarian regimes, such as in the movie ‘Soylent Green’. People are often even tricked into it as in the 1976 movie Logan’s Run. […]
Philosophy
Hegel and the Process of History
Hegel adopts a view of God or the World-Spirit as directly governing the forces of human history and in some ways coming to understand itself in human history. […]
Philosophy
Intelligible and Rational: Hegel’s View of History
On one level, Hegel’s view of history is right. Anthropologically, ethnographically, we do this all the time; we do believe history is intelligible. […]
Philosophy
Hegel’s Idea of Original Sin and Human Reflexivity
According to Hegel, human subjective self-consciousness is the origin of the knowledge of good and evil and thus of Original Sin. […]
Philosophy
Kant’s Demythologizing of Ancient Stories
In the age of Enlightenment, after Kant started talking about “radical evil”, many complained he was betraying the new opportunities the human mind got once it had been freed from tradition. […]
Philosophy
Immanuel Kant and His “Religion within the Limits of Bare Reason”
Not a lot of philosophers have read Kant’s book, “Religion Within the Limits of Bare Reason”. But the book, because of its interpretations and theories about evil, is too important to be ignored. […]
Philosophy
Immanuel Kant’s Critiques: A Revolution in the World of Philosophy
Kant took ten years off and afterward published a huge 800-page manuscript. But his writings were not understood and thus deemed not important at the time. […]
Philosophy
Immanuel Kant: The Great Awakening
Though Immanuel Kant didn’t want to or at least feel the need to travel far, he was perpetually extremely interested in the outside world; he gave lectures on world geography. […]