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myth of the white man’s burden from the days of the British Empire,

Note Hull’s comment that if a person or group dissociates the species-specific designation “Homo sapiens” from the designation “human being,” with all of its attendant moral and theological implications, then that person or group has a “less plausible position.” Why? Why should that which we see, hear, feel, taste, or touch (or observe through scie

Like Macbeth, Western man made an evil decision, which has become the efficient and final cause of other evil decisions. Have we forgotten our encounter with the witches on the heath? It occurred in the late fourteenth century, and what the witches said to the protagonist of this drama was that man could realize himself more fully if he would only

The multiplication of rights leads finally to the destruction of the concept of law and ends in a nihilistic “right” of man to deny himself—abortion, suicide, and the production of a human being as a thing become rights of man that at the same time deny him.

Spencer twisted Darwin’s theory of evolution, named it “survival of the fittest,” and ran with the idea, advocating for policies and laws that would achieve “Social Darwinism.”

PART I Homo sapiens Conquers the World What is the difference between humans and all other animals? How did our species conquer the world? Is Homo sapiens a superior life form, or just the local bully?

the conversion of the Roman Empire, the process by which the state of Augustus and Nero became the state of Constantine and Theodosius, has a vital relation to the rise of the new culture. This has never been adequately recognized by the historians, owing to the curious divorce between ancient and modem history which has caused the study of the tra

Kant, like Darwin, gave rise to a movement which he would have detested. Kant was a liberal, a democrat, a pacifist, but those who professed to develop his philosophy were none of these things. Or, if they still called themselves Liberals, they were Liberals of a new species. Since Rousseau and Kant, there have been two schools of liberalism, which

The first principle of democratic socialism is that we measure our wealth—both individual and collective—in terms of socially available free time. Our free time depends on social and institutional forms because it does not concern a mere quantity of time. Rather, our quantity of free time is inseparable from the quality of our free time, which requ