13 Posts found for source_month: September

Logic is the bedrock of pretty much all human knowledge. As such, philosophers have killed many trees over the centuries, analyzing and determining the principles that define logic and reason. Their ambition has been to determine what we can know to be true and what we cannot know to be true.

What most people don’t realize is that logical fallacies—that is, errors in judgment and reasoning—are … [ Read more ]

Author: Mark Manson | Subjects: Communication, Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge, Personal Improvement, Politics & Public Policy, Thought | Inquiry

Most of us have heard of Abraham Maslow and his hierarchy of needs, but Maslow doesn’t have a monopoly on self-actualization. A look at the work of Carl Rogers.

Authors: Carl Rogers, Matt Davis | Source: Big Think (September 17, 2019) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Psychology | Behavior

Jim Clifton, chief executive of Gallup Inc., has a robust theory about entrepreneurialism and economic recovery.

Authors: Art Kleiner, Jim Clifton | Source: strategy+business (September 4, 2018) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Immigration

How Yasir Arafat destroyed Palestine.

Author: David Samuels | Source: The Atlantic (September2005) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, International, People, Politics & Public Policy

What is the essential dividing line between human beings around the world? The one between the haves and the have-nots? East and west, rural and urban, secular and religious? Or maybe globalists and nationalists – a split purported to explain Putin, Brexit and the rise of Trump? These divisions are all significant, but none provide a consistent way of understanding differences observed from antiquity to … [ Read more ]

Author: Michele Gelfand | Source: The Guardian (September 17, 2018) | Subjects: Culture, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Psychology | Behavior

If you are a fan of Ken Burns documentaries, this is as fine as any of them. It is interesting and educational on so many levels: the environment, biology, economic development, politics, etc. It will also really open your eyes to just how influential one person or a small group of people can be in enacting huge changes and improvements in society. You will learn … [ Read more ]

Author: Ken Burns | Source: PBS (September2009) | Subjects: America, Environment | Sustainability, History, Travel

You may be happy to learn that even though they are a political nightmare to pull off, U.S. tax overhauls have happened on a schedule — like clockwork, and the timer happens to go off again next year. Given that history and necessity are about to collide, Washington Post reporter T.R. Reid got curious about what tried-and-true solutions America could implement to make that next … [ Read more ]

Author: T.R. Reid | Source: Knolwedge@Wharton (September 8, 2017) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Economics | Economy, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Taxation

The Pakistani novelist Kamila Shamsie once observed that there are “two Americas” — one at home and one abroad. The first is the America of Hollywood, work-in-progress democracy, civil rights movements and Ellis Island. The second is the America of coups and occupations, military dictators and CIA plots, economic meddling and contempt for foreign cultures. The rest of the world knows both Americas. But as … [ Read more ]

Author: Suzy Hansen | Source: The Washington Post (September 8, 2017) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, Foreign Policy, International, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

The Republican party has reached bottom and in their few moments of sobriety, conservatives know it.

Republicans began as the anti-slavery party in direct and vocal opposition to Southern Racism and the Know Nothings. They fought a civil war in order to change the world for the better.

Today it is the Klan and the John Birch Society cheering the Republican candidate on.

The first Republican president was … [ Read more ]

Author: Jim Wright | Source: Stonekettle Station (September 19, 2016) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Politics & Public Policy, Trump

Frederick Douglass called it “a sacred effort,” and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address

Author: Garry Wills | Source: The Atlantic (September1999) | Subjects: America, Articles & Links, Excerpts, History

All human activity is prompted by desire. There is a wholly fallacious theory advanced by some earnest moralists to the effect that it is possible to resist desire in the interests of duty and moral principle. I say this is fallacious, not because no man ever acts from a sense of duty, but because duty has no hold on him unless he desires to be

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Authors: Bertrand Russell, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (September 21, 2015) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Psychology | Behavior

“Do you have the courage to bring forth the treasures that are hidden within you?” This is among life’s most abiding questions and the history of human creativity — our art and our poetry and most empathically all of our philosophy — is the history of attempts to answer it.

There is no drearier, sorrier creature in nature than the man who has evaded his own

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Authors: Friedrich Nietzsche, Maria Popova | Source: The Marginalian (Brain Pickings) (September 30, 2015) | Subjects: Articles & Links, Excerpts, Life & Society, Personal Improvement, Philosophy

Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.

Author: Nicholas Kristof | Source: The New York Times (September 22, 2017) | Subjects: Excerpts, International, Politics & Public Policy