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Sep 10, 2026
Onkar GhateGUEST
You want the best arguments for and against, not here's the most widely circulated argument.
Robertas BakulaHOST
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy released an entry on capitalism.
Robertas BakulaHOST
Critics online descended quickly upon the author and the editors of the entry, accusing them of Marxist bias in what was supposed to be an objective, neutral presentation of scholarship on the subject.
Robertas BakulaHOST
However, if there is any bias, it might be a black mark not on the encyclopedia entry or on the author, but on the state of philosophy, which to this day, as Ayn Rand argued before, fails to understand and explain capitalism.
Robertas BakulaHOST
I suspect it's much more today.
Robertas BakulaHOST
Users include students, scholars, librarians, and even military officials.
Robertas BakulaHOST
Hundreds of libraries apparently pay voluntary tributes, membership dues to the library and endorse the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Robertas BakulaHOST
I myself, from my studies and from my work, go to see the entries, get a sense of what references, what scholars should they look into when they study some subjects.
Jay DyerHOST
Who are you to say what's true and what's not? How dare you? How dare you bind me, fascists, as to what you think is true? Relativism is the philosophical view.
Jay DyerHOST
This is from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy that claims are only valid in relationship to the specific observer's framework or vantage point.
Jay DyerHOST
rather than there being any universal objective vantage point.
Jay DyerHOST
So notice that this comes part and parcel with an atheistic worldview.
Dorian MinersHOST
I don't want to get into the debate on that because people far smarter than me do that.
Dorian MinersHOST
And I'll link to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy if you want to give yourself a brain freeze.
Dorian MinersHOST
But essentially normative reasons are all the motivations that might exist.
Dorian MinersHOST
Anything that you sort of could point to and you could say that might be why they did what they did.
Ryan WillardHOST
Let me just give you four that you'll find on just a simple Google search.
Ryan WillardHOST
Actually, go to Stanford Encyclopedia and look this up.
Ryan WillardHOST
They go through all the arguments and all the scholars and all the history of it.
Ryan WillardHOST
There's four major responses.
Peter HardiGUEST
I can use it.
Peter HardiGUEST
Everybody talks it, but I don't really know what it is." So we, we began as philosophers usually begin with definitions, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and so on.
Peter HardiGUEST
I tell you, it didn't help.
Peter HardiGUEST
We found definitions, of course, uh, but, uh, not, uh, for a satisfying understanding.
Seth HartGUEST
And the reason no one can define it is, as Alex Rosenberg, who's an atheist philosopher of biology, he debated William Lane Craig, a very strong atheist.
Seth HartGUEST
He writes the Stanford Encyclopedia, um, uh, he wrote the, um, entry for biological fitness.
Seth HartGUEST
He will s- talk about how it is very difficult to talk about biological fitness without it reducing either to tautology, to where it's explanatorily meaningless, or, uh, something teleological.
Matthew HalsteadHOST
Hmm.
Yaron BrookHOST
And then Friday, um, m- the show was on, um, part of my series on, uh, the capitalism's critiques, critics.
Yaron BrookHOST
And, uh, it was on, um, the, the, the, the Stanford, uh, the new Stanford entry, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on capitalism, which was written by a dev- a, a dedicated anti-capitalist, uh, which was, uh, which I think was interesting.
Yaron BrookHOST
So, uh, hopefully you'll go back and, um, and, and listen to those if you haven't yet.
Yaron BrookHOST
All right, let's jump into the news.
Mohammed HijabHOST
There may be more, but five main ones.
Mohammed HijabHOST
If you go on, for example, the encyclopedia, Stanford Encyclopedia entry on cosmological arguments, there's a guy called Reichenbach.
Mohammed HijabHOST
I think he must be German or something.
Mohammed HijabHOST
He-- If you look at the objections he mentions, there are five prominent objections, and from my research, I f- I found the same thing.
Yaron BrookHOST
But instead I decided to kind of, uh, shift track a little bit.
Yaron BrookHOST
Uh, I, I, um, found out, right? I found out that, uh, earlier this month, on August 5th, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, so a very prestigious encyclopedia run by Stanford University, uh, a- a- a- again, in philosophy, so it's, it's a philosophy encyclopedia, but very prestigious.
Yaron BrookHOST
Anyway, they published for the first time a entry on capitalism, and given kind of what we're doing here, and given that I knew it would be somewhat negative, I figured this would be a great opportunity to discuss what is actually written, uh, in, um, in the Stanford, uh, in the Stanford Encyclopedia.
Yaron BrookHOST
Uh, they, they have an entry on socialism, so, uh, but this is, uh, this is the entry on, uh, on capitalism.
8 MINS LATER
Yaron BrookHOST
Let me just find it for you.
Yaron BrookHOST
Yep, you can see it right there, right? Uh, that is, uh, that is the article.
Yaron BrookHOST
It says on the top, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Yaron BrookHOST
And, um, this was published in August 1st, 2026.
Ron BakerHOST
You know, his idea that knowledge was time and place dependent and it was spread across all of us and therefore no central authority could use it.
Ron BakerHOST
I bring this up because this, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Ron BakerHOST
Yeah, I saw this article, yeah.
Ron BakerHOST
Yeah, is a compendium of articles on complex scholarly subjects.
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