Showing posts with label Rationality of behaviour. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rationality of behaviour. Show all posts
Monday, June 17, 2024

Can discourse ethics help us to assess ideas about justice?

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This essay focuses mainly on the discourse ethics of Jürgen Habermas. Habermas, who will be 95 years old tomorrow, developed a theory of c...
Sunday, June 9, 2024

How different were the views of Hayek and Rand on the role of reason?

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  I think many people who have some knowledge of the views of Ayn Rand and Friedrich Hayek have the impression that they had vastly differen...
Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Did Hayek acknowledge the importance of individual self-direction in his vision of spontaneous order?

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  One of the reasons why Friedrich Hayek’s vision of spontaneous order is more attractive than collectivist alternatives is because it offer...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

Did Ayn Rand recognize the capacity to exercise practical wisdom as a basic good?

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  This question is of interest to me for two reasons. First, I am a fan of Ayn Rand’s novels. Second, in the first chapter of my book, Freed...
Monday, November 20, 2023

Do clinical delusions have anything in common with a mythology mindset?

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  In my discussion of Steven Pinker’s book, Rationality, I referred to his observation that people tend to have a reality mindset in the wo...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

What's wrong with people?

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  This question is posed in the title of Chapter 10 of Steven Pinker’s book , Rationality: What it is, Why it Seems Scarce, Why it Matters. ...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2022

What implications does a livewired brain have for personal development?

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  I was pondering this question while reading David Eagleman’s book, Livewired: the inside story of the ever-changing brain. Eagleman is a n...