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It used to be that people became professors because they had something to say. Now professors, especially in the social sciences and humanities, are basically people who don't want to nine-to-five it and who, if they had to nine-to-five it, wouldn't be able to hack it.
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The essence of psychosis is alienated from the truth, and the essence of psychopathy is alienated from moral truth. According to Marx, truth, and morality from culture to culture and from epoch to epoch, the only epoch, and the culture-invariant thing about them is, in Marx's view, that they are always so much self-serving propaganda. Thus, Marxism, in its insistence on the non-existence, or, what is the same, the relativity, of truth and morality,...
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Bernie Madoff's crimes are often blamed on insufficient regulation: had the relevant regulatory agencies been doing their job, it is thought, the Madoff-debacle would never have happened. But I suspect that Madoff's crimes may themselves have been a consequence of a superabundance of regulations, the effect of which was to make it prohibitively difficult to make money in the financial sector without breaking the law.
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Just as many people go into psychiatry not because they do understand people, but because they don't, so many people go into philosophy not because they are philosophers, but because they are intellectual cripples and, for that reason, cannot even engage in a semblance of thought without following the formal procedures of which instruction in philosophy apprises one.
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Serial killers do have conscience. It isn't that they lack conscience. It is that their consciences lack some of the capabilities that an ordinary person's conscience. The serial killer's conscience does exist, as is evidenced by his ability to self-regulate-and indeed to self-regulate quite as well, at least in most contexts, as the next person. But the serial killer's conscience is not morally articulated; it lacks, at most, the ability to impose...
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Harlan Sanders was a chef whose company (Kentucky Fried Chicken) makes food. Bill Gates was a computer scientist whose company (Microsoft) makes computer-software. Henry Ford was an automaker whose company (Ford Motors) makes cars. A company is successful when it externalizes the identity of its owner. A company is successful when it is its owner's identity--when, in other words, it is its owner's identity externalized. Business-success therefore...
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