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Why everyone needs philosophy — and the consequences for those who fail to understand and accept this fact.
Why capitalism is the only system consistent with man’s nature as a rational being who must produce the values his life and happiness require.
An overview of the Enlightenment’s philosophic argument for freedom as a moral and political ideal, and of the attacks that led to this ideal’s abandonment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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