Aristotle saw commerce in two ways. One was natural. Natural exchange is akin to bartering for what we need. If I need bananas and you need rice, we trade to meet those needs—the value of the exchange is exhausted by ...
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About Ismael Hernandez
Ismael Hernandez is the founder and executive director of the Freedom & Virtue Institute. an organization dedicated to the promotion of the ideas of liberty, faith, and self-reliance. Ismael is a regular lecturer with the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and has spoken at Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, the Foundation for Economic Education and many other organizations. He is a regular speaker at service clubs around the country and is the author of the acclaimed book Not Tragically Colored: Freedom, Personhood, and the Renewal of Black America. He is a noted expert on questions of effectively serving the poor and race relations. Hernandez is also the host of Freedom & Virtue - The Podcast, available for download on iTunes and Spotify.
The countless souls trapped in communities where incivility, anger, and violence reign are not often covered by the news. Pursuit of justice does not have to be this way, but this push for racial justice has become what seems to ...
Read MoreAnother word associated with social justice is “the common good.” A wonderful term in itself, its meaning in practice often hinges on a key question, namely, who decides what is the common good. In contemporary times that responsibility gradually ...
Read MoreDr. King saw the need to make a case for the reality of structural injustice that necessitated a response that need not be violent but could be violent. In effect, the Black Power movement responded to the same structural reality ...
Read MoreIf one is not in alignment with that ideological understanding of black life in America and with the goals necessarily resulting from such understanding, it is reasonable to ask what the organization is doing with an otherwise fine proposition. After ...
Read MoreActivity heals; it renews the mind and the eyes so people can see a space of subjectivity and possibility, ever so small initially, but ever so true. The activity opens a path toward authentic human action and has a miraculous ...
Read More“For the sons of this world are shrewder in dealing with their own generation than the sons of the light.” –Luke 16:8 The Civil Rights Movement grew out of a profound spiritual conviction that the men and women of that ...
Read MoreWith Hobbes, Marx and Lenin affirmed the need for a strong collective leading entity pushing the march of socialism. The collectivized self needs guidance, a vanguard, to lead the masses—and use them for the task—toward the ultimate destruction of the ...
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