Tag: Hannah Arendt
An Artist Examines Evolution
We may dispute what Darwin felt or thought in the privacy of his study — but the bulk of his writings fall clearly into advocating for one perspective: naturalism.
Gelernter: Berlinski’s Human Nature Is “Number One” Book I’d Recommend to Yale Students
“Berlinski is a modern Hannah Arendt, but deeper, more illuminating, and wittier (i.e., smarter).”
Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul
Try to read his essay through to the end without getting chills.
Karl Marx at 200 — Darwinism & Communism
The men who translated Marxism into practical political terms in the form of Soviet terror were evolutionary thinkers.
Free Will Denial and PreCrimes
If we treat criminals the way we treat natural disasters — as physical events without moral culpability — the pragmatic approach is preemption as well.