Nietzsche on Kant’s fundamental correctness: “reason does not derive its laws from nature but prescribes them to nature.” Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, Human All Too Human, A Book for Free Spirits [1878]. Related: On the related context of Nietzsche’s provocative claim: Related: On Nietzsche’s place in the historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism […]

Champion’s essay on Substack, “How Science Lost its Way: Karl Popper and Gordon Tulloch on the institutional malaise of science.” After World War II: “The philosophical diaspora in the US converted the philosophy of science into a wasteland of conceptual analysis and sterile probability theory instead of an introduction to the kind of imaginative and

From a 2020 interview: Jennifer Grossman [24:40]: Another term that could have some help unpacking is the Woke culture. What does that mean? Where did it come from? Stephen Hicks: That’s a much broader concept. It comes out of the Left politically. Interestingly on the Right politically too—if we can use these labels—they’re obviously Left and

Synopsis: Late in the 19th century artists began to experiment with non-representational art. Dr. Hicks traces this movement to Immanuel Kant’s basic philosophy as expressed in his 1781 Critique of Pure Reason. Their conversation ranges over Kant’s metaphysical ideas and his ideas of beauty and the sublime as expressed in Critique of Judgment. The perceptual

By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA. Lecture 10: What did the major Behaviorist thinkers, and B.F. Skinner in particular, believe and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education: The

“Nothing else can be stated as the aim of our existence except the knowledge that it would be better for us not to exist.” Lecture Four: Altruism and Self-Sacrifice Themes: Suffering. Nihilism. Self-interest and selflessness. Egoism, Predation, and Altruism. The Religion of Humanity. Texts: Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality and The World as Will and

My initial list of key issues and themes in the new Trump-MAGA era. Please add other major issues/themes in the comments. State them neutrally, as my purpose here is to identify the topics and not to make arguments for or against. 1. Real estate: Donald Trump is a real-estate-guy-now-become-President and thinking expansion: Greenland, Canada 2.