Ayn Rand admired Mickey Spillane as a writer and a crusader: a brilliant literary talent and a moral absolutist. Several of his novels, including the two-book series about Morgan the Raider (a pir

This lesson explains Aristotles method of scientific investigation, focusing on Aristotles logical worksespecially the Posterior Analytics. Salmieri discusses Aristotles view of the kinds of quest

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In this lesson, Salmieri discusses Aristotles view of the types and degrees of knowledge. In particular, he explains what is distinctive about the type of knowledge that Aristotle calls epistm (sci

The ancient Stoics held that we suffer in life because we value the wrong things and/or have the wrong attitude toward our values. If we want to live the good life, they held, we need to radically cha

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