Foundations of Liberty Or: The Intellectual Crisis of the Modern World A Lecture Series with Prof. Thomas Patrick Burke In the last lecture we saw how Darwin, though he believed he explained the evolution of biological species solely in terms of mechanistic causation, i.e. chance and necessity, without any reference to …(Read More)
Author Archives: syndicate247Foundations of Liberty Or: The Intellectual Crisis of the Modern World A Lecture Series with Prof. Thomas Patrick Burke In the last lecture we saw how Darwin, though he believed he explained the evolution of biological species solely in terms of mechanistic causation, i.e. chance and necessity, without any reference to …(Read More)
Foundations of Liberty Or: The Intellectual Crisis of the Modern World A Lecture Series with Prof. Thomas Patrick Burke In the last lecture we suggested that modern genetics, though technically an immense advance on the biology of Darwin’s time, has repeated Darwin’s crucial philosophical error in regard to mechanistic and teleological causation. Darwin believed he …(Read More)
Foundations of Liberty Or: The Intellectual Crisis of the Modern World A Lecture Series with Prof. Thomas Patrick Burke In the last lecture we examined a remarkable new development in biology, in the field of genetics, a field which occupies the center of the stage in the neo-Darwinian theory of how …(Read More)
Foundations of Liberty Or: The Intellectual Crisis of the Modern World A Lecture Series with Prof. Thomas Patrick Burke In the last lecture we investigated a recent development in physics that can be viewed as pointing in the direction of the views we have been espousing in these lectures: the theory …(Read More)
Foundations of Liberty Or: The Intellectual Crisis of the Modern World A Lecture Series with Prof. Thomas Patrick Burke In the last lecture we examined what is in the eyes of many working scientists the principal objection to the viewpoint we have been developing in these lectures: that it is nothing more …(Read More)
Foundations of Liberty Or: The Intellectual Crisis of the Modern World A Lecture Series with Prof. Thomas Patrick Burke In the last lecture we saw that purpose and value are present in the world, through the existence of living beings. We did not create them. They are part of the constitution of …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 The Philosophy of Liberalism There are two very different kinds of reason or argument that can be given for liberty. One is based on its utility, that liberty has good consequences for …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 We pointed out in the last lecture that although the earlier arguments for the free society were made on moral or philosophical grounds, once the science of economics developed sufficiently the role …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 In the second half of the twentieth century it seems fair to say that the baton of the free society, and also of Austrian economics, passed from Mises to Hayek. Mises had …(Read More)
Freedom and Society: Classical Liberalism in the Twentieth Century A Course with Professor Thomas Patrick Burke Spring 2007 If Ludwig von Mises provided the most powerful economic formulation of classical liberalism, arguing that economic progress demands a free society and especially free markets, and Friedrich Hayek secured for this message …(Read More)