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Free-Market Policies We have been told that, if left alone, markets will produce the most efficient and just outcome. Efficient, because individuals know best how to utilize the resources they command, and just, because the competitive market process ensures that individuals are rewarded according to their productivity. We have been told that business should be given maximum freedom. Firms, bei..

진화론과 기독교 사이의 초기이자 역사적인 대결은 테네시 주 데이튼(Dayton)에서 1925년에 일어났다. 고등학교 생물교사였던 존 스코우프스 (John Scopes)는 진화론을 가르쳤다는 범죄 혐의를 - 그가 저질렀다고 공개적으로 고백한 “범죄” - 받았다. 그러나 그럼에도 불구하고 “스코우프스 원숭이 재판”..

▲▼▲ 아이들이 인터넷에서 포르노에 접속한다는 문제가 실제로 있을까? 그리고 그런 문제가 있다면, 성인으로서 우리는 감수성이 예민한 아이들이 어른들만을 위하여 제작된 성행위적인 자료를 시청하지 못하도록 강력하게 노력하여야 하지 않을까? 이 질문에 관한 답변은 이렇다: (1) 문제가 없다;..

-전체내용- Foreword Creationists are funny. They want to be taken seriously as scientific and have their or their comrades' writing taught as science to our children in schools. But their attitude is unscientific. Rather than engaging in open-minded investigation to figure out how things are done, at the first glimmer of mystery they throw up their hands and say it is beyond science. This is..

Chapter II Individuals and the Fallacy of Rugged Individualism I am lonely. To a degree my loneliness - and yours - inevitable. Like you, I am an individual. And that means I am unique. There is no one else like me in this whole wide world. This "I-entity" that is me is different from each and every other "I-entity" that ever lived. Our separate identities, like fingerprints, make all of us uni..

Two Attitudes towards Tradition It should be clearly understood that there are only two main attitudes possible towards tradition. One is to accept a tradition uncritically, often without even being aware of it. In many cases we cannot escape this; for we often just do not realize that we are faced with a tradition. If I wear a watch on my left wrist, I need not be conscious that I am accepting..

The Early Greek Philosophers and Myths The early Greek Philosophers did indeed try to understand what happened in nature. But so did the more primitive myth-makers before them. How can we characterize that primitive type of explanation which was superseded by the standards of the early Greek philosophers - the founders of our scientific tradition? To put it crudely, the pre-scientific myth-make..

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large. They find themselves born into a certain place in society, and they accept what each day brings forth, without any effort of thought beyond what the immediate present requires. Almost as instinctively as the ..

Modern societies thus have much in common. But do they necessarily merge into homogeneity? The argument that they do rests on the assumption that modern society must approximate a single type, the Western type, that modern civilization is Western civilization and that Western civilization is modern civilization. This, however, is a totally false identification. Western civilization emerged in t..

The first agency of change was Japan. So it is appropriate to begin there. Japan in the mid-nineteenth century resembled Korea in its isolation from the Eurocentric world system, its sense of closeness to Chinese civilization, and its concern for land and its products. It was also similar in that the vast change it was about to experience was to be set off by external forces - that is, contact ..