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Daniel Lattier

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  • How Rome Described Their Barbarians

    How Rome Described Their Barbarians1

    The term “barbarian” gets thrown around a lot, including by our Intellectual Takeout authors in their blogs. In general, “barbarian” is the generic term used by Westerners for someone who do not conform to the dominant culture’s standards of civilization and, in some cases, seeks to actively undermine them. Many scholars have argued that we

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  • Being Intelligent Doesn’t Require You To Be a Jerk

    Being Intelligent Doesn’t Require You To Be a Jerk0

    Intellectual types are usually kind of jerks, right? At least, that’s the prevalent stereotype. We know that Mark Zuckerberg screwed over his good friend Eduardo Saverin. We’ve heard that Jeff Bezos of Amazon delivers some harsh insults to people in meetings. There are numerous complaints from professors that many of their academic colleagues are unpleasant

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  • A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up

    A New Logical Fallacy Is Popping Up3

    • September 21, 2016

    By now, most of you are familiar with the ad hominem logical fallacy. Latin for “against the man,” it’s the practice of personally attacking one’s opponent rather than his or her argument. In this blog I’d like to introduce a brand new logical fallacy that I frequently see committed today. I have dubbed it the

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  • Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’

    Scholar: Schools Are Creating ‘Learned Barbarians’0

    There are two main competing views about human nature in Western civilization. The first and most ancient is the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian view. Mutatis mutandis, it holds that men and women are born with a proclivity toward ignorance, are subject to many harmful passions (e.g. anger, envy, etc.), and need much training and work to

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