I know tomorrow is the pep rally and all, but we have a few important things we need to go over like our topic of choice for our guest speaker Dr. James Lark who will be with us on the 21st. Also, I have a couple articles/essays I’d like to hand out to you all [...]
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Brief Meeting Tomorrow and Two Essays
Posted in Club Organization, tagged essays, individual rights, isaiah berlin, meeting, robert higgs, two concepts of liberty on October 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From ‘The Proper Study of Mankind’
Posted in Intellectual History, Philosophy, tagged intellectual inquiry, isaiah berlin, Philosophy, the proper study of mankind, two concepts of liberty on September 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To all those who shun politics or poltical theory as an idle endeavor relegated to the power hungry, I offer the following excerpt from a brilliant essay we’ll be reading titled “Two Concepts of Liberty” by intellectual historian and philosopher Isaiah Berlin. “Our philosophers seem oddly unaware of these devastating effects of their activities. It [...]