Monthly Archives: December 2022

This is a talk about a half-dozen conceptions of “freedom” found in human societies from ancient times to the present. It is a term everyone assumes is self-explanatory, has the same meaning at all times, and is easily understood. But…

Many popular assumptions about “rights” are fully exposed in this talk. What is a “right”? The definition defended is that a right is not some mystical property of a human being, as many imagine. It is simply “a defensible claim”,…