Philosophy

In today’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines Robert Nozick’s answer to the question asked in the title of this article.

Those who invoke Jesus for socialism face a tension: if the power to end suffering creates a moral obligation, then the Jesus who healed many but not all appears, by that standard, either unwilling or unable.

The original western values such as juridical equality, political freedom, natural rights, and religious tolerance are being co-opted into a system of “positive” rights that are socially and morally destructive.

Do we have free will? Do only a few of us have free will? Does anyone have free will? Thomas Pink tries to answer those questions, and Dr. David Gordon examines his explanations in this week’s Friday Philosophy.

Modern historians are all about protecting their politically-correct narratives at all costs, and especially the cost of historical truths.

While Aristotle did not have advanced knowledge of economics, his causal-based view of reality set the stage for the development of the Austrian School.

Austrian economists insist one cannot use the methodology of the physical sciences to explain economic phenomena. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon examines Peter Winch, who criticized using methodology of the physical sciences to explain social sciences.

Like so many intellectuals, Hilary Putnam is a good philosopher but a poor judge of good economics. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon dissects Putnam’s confusion between facts and values.

Economist Robert Barro has questioned the necessity of fighting a war in this country to end slavery. In this week's Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon looks at Barro's reasoning and finds it sound.

Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or communism, rather than private property, but this is mistaken and the evidence is within Acts itself.