Philosophy

In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes a hard look at philosopher Omri Boehm’s fixation with John Brown and his commitment to violence in the name of ending slavery. 

“Equality imposed by force,” Chrysostom insists, “would achieve nothing, and do much harm.”

The idea is now widespread that communities or groups exercise a form of collective thought, which can be duly expressed by the leader of the group as the thoughts of the group mind.

This week, Dr. Gordon explores some of the thought of Thomas Nagel on reason and how subjectivists who deny objective reason are inviting us not to believe them through their arguments.

Ryan and Josh Mawhorter talk about how Thomas Hobbes, even nearly 400 years later, remains a popular spokesman for almost limitless state power. In fact, by Hobbes's logic, the world should by ruled by a single global dictatorship. 

Through the most bloody war in American history to date, Lincoln unleashed an inchoate “secret constitution” that began to bring the US into closer alignment with equality and democracy, which many view as a good thing.

This week, Dr. Gordon explores some devastating critiques of utilitarianism from the philosopher F. H. Bradley.

Liberty is not a luxury good. It is necessary for civilization to thrive and the end of liberty will also be the end of civilization. Karl Popper understood that as well as anyone who has lived.

Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.

Inflation is not just an economic phenomenon. It also undercuts the foundations of a civilization, leading to the breakdown of society itself.