Shifting the Overton Window in South Africa
The ‘Overton window’ has become a buzzword among many liberty-loving colleagues and allies during the past few years. The term,
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Logic
Why Humans Persist in Believing in Universal Morality: Moral Opinion Presented As Fact (Part 3)
Click here to read Part 1. Click here to read Part 2. We saw in Parts 1 and 2 that
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Protecting Truth from Willful Ignorance and Deceit
Objective Reality He who controls the present controls the past, He who controls the past controls the future. George Orwell
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The Good and Bad of Post-Modern Skepticism
The Revival of Skepticism In the era which is now just past, the era of modernism, it was fashionable to
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Why Humans Persist in Believing in Universal Morality: The Function of Ideologies (Part 2)
Click here to read Part 1. From the genuinely secular viewpoint, there is nothing at all supernatural about morality. It
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Why Humans Persist in Believing in Universal Morality: The Need to Believe (Part 1)
All human belief systems (secular ideologies as well as religions) are based upon the conviction that all human behaviour is
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Let’s stop the obsession over income inequality!
One of the many things that seems to trouble most people around the world today is income inequality. Organisations like
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Debating with leftists: 5 nasty tricks to watch out for
The following article appeared originally on BeingLibertarian.com Debating with leftists can be a tricky endeavour – but not for a
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A Few Logical Fallacies
In this day and age, we are facing a very worrying wave of anti-intellectualism. This anti-intellectualism has manifested itself in
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The Value of Logic
2016 is going to be a difficult year on South African campuses. Already, we have seen unrest at the registration
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