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John Gray’s anti-Enlightenment [Stephen Hicks’s Pope Lecture]

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In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers […]

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Freedom of Thought and Discussion | John Stuart Mill | *Philosophers, Explained* series by Professor Stephen Hicks

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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian

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“Fascism—Borderless and Red” | Alexander Dugin | *Philosophers, Explained* series by Stephen Hicks

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Episodes: The full playlist. About the Professor: Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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“The Myth of Sisyphus” | Albert Camus | *Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks

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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. About the Professor: Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in

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Three Goddesses, c. 438-32 BCE [Newberry on Great Art series]

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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series

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The Watch and Watchmaker | William Paley | *Philosophers, Explained* series by Stephen Hicks

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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. About the Professor: Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in

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The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels | *Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks

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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist of Philosophers, Explained. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in

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“Existentialism is a Humanism” | Jean-Paul Sartre | *Philosophers, Explained* by Stephen Hicks

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Episodes: The full playlist, including Kant, Nietzsche, Rand, Locke, Heidegger, and others. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in

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