Archive for March 31st, 2009
Lew on Academic Freedom
Here is this beautiful article. “Universities, like cathedrals, were sanctuaries from wars, political machinations, revolutions, and kingly belligerence… ‘even under the Russian czars the police were forbidden to enter the university’.”
Posted: March 31st, 2009 under Philosophy, Political.
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The Real Social Contract
Mises believed that private property is useful only insofar as it serves human ends: Private property is a human device. It is not sacred. It came into existence in early ages of history, when people with their own power and by their own authority appropriated to themselves what had previously not been anybody’s property. Again [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2009 under Philosophy, Political.
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