Posted on June 26, 2009 by K. M.
Plenty of work coupled with a lack of motivation to spend time on editing has meant that its been quite a while since I last wrote a proper, thought-out post although I do have plenty of accumulated material to write about. While the lack of motivation hasn’t changed, I thought I should just put this down.
In a short conversation over [...]
Filed under: Concepts, Conversations | Tagged: Altruism, Bureaucracy, Egoism, Government, Greed, Profit, Profit motive, Regulations, Sacrifice, Socialism | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 2, 2009 by K. M.
Via this debate on Aristotle The Geek’s blog, I came across this critique of Ayn Rand’s essay “The Objectivist Ethics” on Michael Heumer’s website. After reading through the mind-numbing (primarily because of its length) critique and disagreeing with it, I took a look at some other pages on his site and found this critique of egoism. Heumer is [...]
Filed under: Concepts | Tagged: Ayn Rand, Egoism, Ethics, Evolution, Heumer, Hypotheticals, Intuition, Morality, Rationality | 10 Comments »
Posted on October 1, 2008 by K. M.
Summary
Fareed Zakaria’s book “The Future of Freedom – Illiberal Democracy at Home & Abroad” is a critique of democracy. Zakaria notes that democracy is not the same thing as constitutional liberty. He notes that democracy is a process of selecting governments whereas constitutional liberalism is about selecting government’s goals and refers to the Western tradition [...]
Filed under: Book Reviews | Tagged: Capitalism, Constitution, Culture, Democracy, Economics, Egoism, Ethics, Liberalism, Politics | 2 Comments »
