Philosophy

Philosophy articles feature reflection and analysis about public life, values, ethics, and morals.

All philosophy articles at Brownstone Institute are translated into multiple languages.

Filter posts by category

What Happened to the Idea of Progress?

By / / , / 8 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Like people, paradigms get tired, mostly because the humans that work within them, as Kuhn suggested, increasingly lose touch with the problems that originally elicited in them the intense and sacrifice-laden drive to create urgently desired new things. But humans aren’t always very good at recognizing when they have begun going through the motions. This is especially so with those in the thrall of a purely linear vision of time in which the perennial reality of intellectual and spiritual regression is afforded no legitimate space. 

What Happened to the Idea of Progress? Read Journal Article

The Selfish Collective

By / / , / 10 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

A truly prosocial approach would not shut out all other goals and insist on one way forward. It would take into account the different priorities and viewpoints of various factions or individuals, approach them with respect, and ask how to best facilitate some sort of harmony among their needs. Instead of prescribing behavior onto others it would advocate for dialogue and open debate, and it would celebrate differences of opinion. 

The Selfish Collective Read Journal Article

Osterism Won’t Prevent March 2020 From Happening Again

By / / , / 3 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Oster’s implicit claim that next-to-nothing was known about SARS-CoV-2 – and therefore all the pointless, unethical, and illegal things people were forced to do are understandable – isn’t the pathway to healing, because it’s dishonest. Inexplicably, she denies that, from the get-go, we knew Covid’s stratified risks and the harms of coerced interventions.

Osterism Won’t Prevent March 2020 From Happening Again Read Journal Article

Science Misconceived: How the Covid Epoch Wrecked Understanding

By / / , / 16 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The pandemic along with the slogan, “Trust the science” has altered the desired perspective from one of healthy skepticism to blind acceptance. Such non-critical acceptance of any data, let alone research occurring at “the speed of science,” should give pause. Science moves forward when objections are made and hypotheses are fine-tuned, not when agreement ensues simply because an authority has decreed it so. 

Science Misconceived: How the Covid Epoch Wrecked Understanding Read Journal Article

Remember Those Who Cannot Speak

By / / , , / 6 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Remember this: every article you read on this site represents the views of thousands of learned and concerned people who are not in a position to speak. Every author here has taken risks and knows the stakes of the debate in which we find ourselves at the center. There is a silent group out there of highly intelligent people who are deeply grateful to all our supporters for making this opportunity to speak truth to power possible. 

Remember Those Who Cannot Speak Read Journal Article

Why has the Church Not Spoken Out?

By / / / 8 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

In this more recent attack, truly, who would have ever dreamed that the very medical establishment we all depended on and trusted in for caring for us, for healing us would be transformed at the “speed of science” into one of the most efficient means of subjecting entire nations under a medical dictatorship and subjugating the global population through medicine? Honestly, who had ever thought this could happen?

Why has the Church Not Spoken Out? Read Journal Article

Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word 

By / / , / 9 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Karma is already turning on the whole gang of coercive totalitarians here and abroad. While the virus is invisible, the people who dreamed up and enforced lockdowns and mandates who wrecked the country are highly visible. They have names and careers, and they are right to be very worried about their futures. First step: apologize.

Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word  Read Journal Article

Colbert, Fauci, and the Externalization of Mental Illness

By / / , / 7 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Life is hard. Everyone I know bears some burden or other. Most do so with equanimity and dignity, and without victimizing others. It’s been deeply wrong—and extremely selfish—for Colbert, Fauci and their groupies to have externalized their mental unwellness on hundreds of millions of others by insisting on society-wide, lastingly destructive Coronavirus interventions.

Colbert, Fauci, and the Externalization of Mental Illness Read Journal Article

Pfizer Marvel Disney

Why Is Pfizer Attempting Comix?

By / / , / 4 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

This is brave of Marvel and Disney. Mixing face masks and vaccines with super heroes is either very confident, or very profitable. Dress it up how you want, but bandaids on old men’s arms aren’t exactly superhero-ish. It’s a long way from muscular Thor and his hammer. And every adverse vaccine event stands to puncture the allure of the super hero like a needle through a cape.

Why Is Pfizer Attempting Comix? Read Journal Article

aggression

You’re Aggressive, but I’m Not

By / / , / 7 minute read / Articles
SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

As every great religious tradition reminds us, the proclivity to do ill to others is vividly present in everyone during the entire course of our lives on earth, and that the first and most effective step towards ensuring that this inner monster does not take control of our destinies is acknowledging its enduring presence within us. It is then, and only then, that we can shape effective and enduring strategies to keep it at bay. 

You’re Aggressive, but I’m Not Read Journal Article