2017 Symposium II – Valdis Grinsteins
Ideas are for Action as the Bow is for the Arrow I had the honour of being with Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, founder of…
Ethics
2017 Symposium – Richard Cocks
Philosophy and The Crisis of the Modern World To find a way out of the current confusions and rifts in modern Western societies, and for…
2016 Symposium – Peter King
Of the World Some scientists tell the story that we are all made of matter that has existed since the beginning of the universe, and…
Quote of the Week: Jean-Pierre Changeux, “What Makes Us Think?”
“On the other hand, what is true for language is also true, by implication, for a particular system of cultural representations, of legal and ethical…
Quote of the Week: Lawrence Auster, “The Path to National Suicide”
“The global conception of morality results, I would argue, in a distortion of morality rather than its fulfillment. Ethics could be defined as a sense of…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part III: Carl Jung
As to the previous essay on Existentialism, it could be surmised that man’s obligation to construct meaning in his own life is limited only to…
Quote of the Week: Irving Babbitt, “Democracy and Leadership”
“Now the doctrine of enlightened self-interest is not itself superficial. It has been held by profound thinkers like Aristotle and Buddha. But the self that…
Quote of the Week: Theodore Dalrymple, “In Praise of Prejudice”
“Rights expand to meet the egos of those for whom freedom is nothing but unconstrained action (The only good that deserves the name, says Mill,…