Deirdre McCloskey

Why are we alive? What is our purpose here on earth? Is the soul immortal? These questions seem inevitable in philosophy. The subject itself depends on the topic of reality. Everything on this planet is present because of a certain meaning it holds and a certain purpose it will have on an individual’s life. In this paper, I will use the help of great philosopher’s such as Plato, Radhakrishnan, McCloskey, etc. to better understand the concepts of reality. Each one of them had a different style in explaining what these themes meant to them and I will try to compose their ideas to form one big idea. I believe that knowledge is an essential part in understanding the reason behind our reality. Education seems to have solved a lot of the world’s…

The three books− Religion in Human Evolution by Robert N. Bellah, Bourgeois Equality by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey and The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber, consist of several themes that interrelate and overlap. There haves been attempts to understand the human species from the lens of biological evolution, economics and cognitive reasoning. A lot of emphasis is given to the process of natural selection and how it has worked towards ensuring the prosperousness of the human…

Currently, liberalism which is an idea that supports the liberal economic activity rather than the economy controlled by government is a controversial social, economic, and political issue. And it is an issue that may have direct effect on the household economy. Therefore, whether you support or criticize liberalism, it is important to know what the opinion of the liberalist is. Deirdre N. McCloskey provides her argument which supports liberalism in an article “The Formula for a Richer World?…