Sublime

“Even the best universities aren’t developing critical intelligence,” he told me. “They aren’t giving students the tools to analyze the modern world, except in their area of specialization. Their education is too narrow.”

THE DISTRIBUTION QUESTION

Authority is not to be used as a bludgeon to shut down the exchange of ideas. Bob Trivers, evolutionary biologist par excellence, and our mentor in college, once advised us to seek positions in which we taught undergraduates. His reasoning was this: Undergrads do not yet know the field, and so are likely to ask questions that you aren’t expecting,

Flynn présentait des concepts généraux en cours, mais il est certain qu’il les enterrait, souvent, sous une montagne d’autres informations spécifiques à ce seul cours – une mauvaise habitude qu’il s’est efforcé de combattre. L’étude qu’il a réalisée dans cette université publique l’a convaincu que les départements de premier cycle font preuve de tr

In their view, moral behavior maximizes the most pleasure for the most people and minimizes the most pain. That’s the core idea of utilitarianism. Other things like character or intentions and so on don’t really matter. What matters are consequences, what philosophers called consequentialism. Now, this was quite a major shift in moral thinking and

Simple trade makes people better off when preferences differ, but the true power of trade occurs when trade leads to specialization.