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“According to his opinion, man should only believe what he can grasp with his intellectual faculties, or perceive by his senses, or what he can accept on trustworthy authority. Beyond this nothing should be believed.”
― Guide for the Perplexed - Enhanced Version
― Guide for the Perplexed - Enhanced Version
“The Harvard philosopher John Rawls articulated what he called the Difference Principle: if the entrepreneurship of a rich person made the poorest better off, then the higher income of the rich entrepreneur was justified.7 It makes a good deal of ethical sense. Equality does not.”
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
― Why Liberalism Works: How True Liberal Values Produce a Freer, More Equal, Prosperous World for All
“Our lives are but episodes in its majestic march through time. In sum, society is the walls of imprisonments in history.”
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“Words create worlds.”
― Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
― Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity
“What will matter in fifty years in economic history is poverty and its ending, and in political history what will matter is tyranny and its ending. If poverty and tyranny are ended, the rest follows.”
― Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
― Bettering Humanomics: A New, and Old, Approach to Economic Science
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Akiva’s 2024 Year in Books
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