Archive for May, 2008

Self-Esteem as a Spiritual Discipline

Saturday, May 24, 2008
Hello, everyone!  Think about this and tell me what you think.   Self-Esteem as a Spiritual Discipline Four decades ago, when I began lecturing on self-esteem, the challenge was to persuade people that the subject was worthy of study.   Almost no one was talking about self-esteem in those days.  Today, almost everyone seems to be talking about self-esteem, and [...]

Capitalism: The Libertarian Vision

Monday, May 12, 2008
Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political concept. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge independently, respecting nothing more than the sovereignty of his or her own mind. As an ethical-political concept, individualism upholds the supremacy of individual rights, the principle that a [...]