This paper evaluates and compares the main philosophic economic thoughts of two great liberal minds Michael Polanyi Friedrich A. von Hayek in regards to concept a ‘spontaneous order’. In several their books papers, both Michal (1941, 1948, 1951) F.A. (1944, 1945, 1964, 1973) strongly emphasised on impossibility socialism superiority free market versus public interventionism. Both highlighted co...

This paper shall attempt to reconcile environmentalism and economic freedom. Before making this seemingly quixotic endeavor, we must be sure we are clear on both concepts. Environmentalism may be non controversially defined as a philosophy which sees great benefit in clean air and water, and to a lowered rate of species extinction. Environmentalists are particularly concerned with the survival ...

Neo-confederate blogger Dissident Mama describes the January 6 Capitol Insurrection as “#resistance without corporate sponsorship”. In a series of blogs, she appropriates language anti-capitalist movements to defend armed resistance from Charlottesville Capitol. Negative media coverage is woke “agitprop” by elites: journalists and politicians, but also “corporate goons.” These meanwhile, are “v...

In the last days of 1982, the corporate-funded business education nonprofit Junior Achievement (JA) began distributing 121 donated personal computers—Xerox 820s, Hewlett Packard HP-86s, and IBM personal computers—to classrooms in 25 cities across the United States. The donated machines were part of JA’s new high school course, Applied Economics. The course curriculum had been designed with the ...

THE COVID pandemic has raised hard questions about liberty and the role of state. Many Conservatives have been discomfited by answers that their own government given to these questions, resorting instead a libertarian rhetoric argue for more permissive approach public health regulation. As several commentators pointed out, there is marked asymmetry in this Conservative hostility legal restricti...

The fifth edition of Beauchamp and Childress’s Principles of Biomedical Ethics is distinguished by its emphatic embrace of common morality as the ultimate source of moral norms. This essay critically evaluates the fifth edition’s discussion of common morality and, to a lesser extent, its treatment of coherence (both the model of ethical justification and the associated concept). It is argued th...

This is the fourth article in a four-article series that examines Buddhist responses to the Western philosophical problem of whether free will is compatible with “determinism,” the scientific doctrine of universal lawful causation. The first article focused on “early period” scholarship from the 1970’s, which was primarily compatibilist, that is, of the view that the Buddhist conception of caus...

I address the question of human agency from perspective critical social theory. Critical theories seek to change reality for better in an ethical-political sense based on a critique what is wrong with existing one. Furthermore, they offer changing that attentive historical, social, and geopolitical contexts. start premise salient context today anthropogenic ecological disaster global scale. ass...

In the past, Michael Sandel has inveighed against modes of debate that bracket moral questions and exhorted Americans to discuss controversial issues in openly ethical terms, without telling us whose conception should prevail. His inviting probing style, coupled with his insistence you couldn’t have a just society being judgmental, made him an academic sensation.1 The title new book, Tyranny Me...

My essay has several connected histories to unravel about the construction and use of new forms informational mediated control by elite groups secure political economic realities. It is part a longer project on history “the digital” as modality specific praxis control. “Prediction Machines” began an experiment in writing present with backward-directed glance historian” that unraveled over time ...