Sociobiology and Altruism
Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
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Sociobiology is the doctrine that we have fundamental behaviors and psychological characteristics that are explained by the incentives
It is my view that scholarly writing has several distinctive characteristics: It shows careful reading of primary sources and a thorough
Morally there is a kind of symmetry between the two types of reparations cases: In general, there is no justice in blaming a group for the
If only Progressivism could be a genus of Objectivism! But, alas, no.The Progressive movement was originally an intellectual and political
Ayn Rand is not a revered figure in academic philosophy at this time. But there is a growing body of scholarship on her ideas by academic
"Individualism" is a term for classifying theories, such as ethical or social theories. Any theory that places the individual foremost or
One of the strangest stories in English literature is the rise and fall of Joseph Addison’s Cato, which was first performed in London in....
This is a collection of essays and reviews by an American sociologist who for some forty years has been slugging it out in academic journals
September/October 2002 -- BOOK REVIEW: Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism . By Joshua Muravchik. (San Francisco, Calif...
December 2004 -- Ayn Rand acknowledged Aristotle as the only philosopher to whom she was indebted, the father of logic who defined "the bas
Transhumanism (e.g. H+ ) or Extropianism is an ideological coalition centered on the idea that, in the near future, substantial....
Libertarianism is the political position that all human relationships should be voluntary, i.e. not subject to the initiation of force by...
Before philosophy for tens of thousands of years, human beings did not see the world as we see it. Why did the Nile rise and flood the field
In 2003, the Supreme Court declared that people challenging the constitutionality of an economic regulation must "negative every conceivable
My theme is that, on the German intellectual landscape, Kant is as close to Enlightenment thinking as it gets. From the perspective of most
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive
In order to live, man must act; in order to act, he must make choices; in order to make choices, he must define a code of values; in order..
Aristotle originated the kind of literary theory that emphasizes the objective features of texts and the authorial intentions that those....
Maria Montessori, the first woman to graduate from the University of Rome Medical School, became a doctor in 1896. Her first post was in the
Marxism and Objectivism are similar in very few respects: —They are systems of thought. But Marxism is primarily a political and economic