Lecciones de Filosofía Política: Vol I: De la Revolución francesa a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Spanish Edition published in Madrid by Publicaciones del Orden Espontáneo. Translated by Professor Gustavo Morales Alsona. Prologue by Professor Miguel Anxo Bastos. Las grandes transformaciones políticas no surgen únicamente de revoluciones, guerras, elecciones o crisis económicas. Detrás de ellas hay

St. Benedict (500s), according to St. Gregory: “Benedict fought valiantly to forget the woman ‘the memory of whom the wicked spirit put into his mind, and by that memory so mightily inflamed with concupiscence the soul of God’s servant … that, almost overcome with pleasure, he was of a mind to forsake the wilderness. But

On National Socialism, quotations from leading intellectuals. First, what kind of socialism did the National Socialists want? In the 1920s, they were influenced by Oswald Spengler and Moeller van den Bruck. In the 1930s, their top philosopher: Link to text of Heidegger’s speech here. In 1940, an unsympathetic socialist assessed it this way: Link to

1. “He had delusions of adequacy. “ — Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.“ — Winston Churchill3. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.“ — Clarence Darrow4. “He has never been known to use a word

Free sample lecture from my Philosophy of Politics course. Starting with why philosophy matters to politics, the French Revolution, and Edmund Burke’s influential interpretation. Full course available here, along with its complementary Part 2. My other courses available here: Logic, Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Education, and more.

We see variations of this question: What happens when robots can do anything physical better than humans and AI can do anything cognitive better than any humans? What will be left for us? The answer is: Live your life as the human being you are. The better-than-me circumstance already exists. Usain Bolt and a thousand

Two factors about the long reach of skeptical philosophy and its practical results. Social construction of reality: If influential philosophers teach that “reality” is merely a social construct, then what happens to us in the next, taught generation? We focus primarily on the social — on doing whatever we can to construct social reality according