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  • What Young America learned about Islam

    What Young America learned about Islam0

    Currently much controversy surrounds Islam and its compatibility, or lack thereof, with the Western world. To some, Islam is a religion of peace whose adherents desire nothing more than the way of life enjoyed by others in Western nations. To others, Islam has a strong undercurrent of violence and fundamentally conflicts with Western values of

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  • Philosopher: No, you’re not entitled to your opinion

    Philosopher: No, you’re not entitled to your opinion2

    Every year, I try to do at least two things with my students at least once. First, I make a point of addressing them as “philosophers” – a bit cheesy, but hopefully it encourages active learning. Secondly, I say something like this: “I’m sure you’ve heard the expression ‘everyone is entitled to their opinion.’ Perhaps

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  • Karl Popper Quotes to Make you Think

    Karl Popper Quotes to Make you Think0

    Sir Karl Raimund Popper (d. 1994) is considered one of the greatest philosophers and scientific minds of the 20th century. Born into an upper middle-class family in Vienna in 1902, Popper grew up surrounded by books and learning. His father was a bibliophile, and the younger Popper inherited this love for the written word. Though

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  • Book Learning Is Not Enough

    Book Learning Is Not Enough1

    In his preface to The Closing of the American Mind, professor Allan Bloom describes the main goal of education as a mission to help students answer the question, “What is man?” As Bloom goes on to note, many individuals believe that the answer to this question is found in extensive book learning. But Bloom believes

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  • Why we need to teach political philosophy in schools

    Why we need to teach political philosophy in schools0

    What is the spectre haunting Europe today? It’s simple. The thing that truly dogs us, that really drags at our heels, is ignorance. Ignorance of the fundamental ideas at the heart of politics. Ignorance of the key terms of political argument: liberty, equality, power, justice, and so on. Ignorance of the subject matter of political

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  • What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump

    What the ancient Greeks would have thought of Donald Trump0

    You know them already, but you probably don’t have a name for them let alone an understanding of what drives them and why. They are called cholerics. They are one of the four temperaments identified in the proto-psychology of the ancient Greeks. And they have an innate sense of self-worth and ambition that drives them

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