Don’t miss this audio version Stephen Hicks’s scholarly article “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.” First published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (10:2, Spring 2009), pp. 249-91. Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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Explicando el Posmodernismo, la crisis del socialismo Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Barbarroja Ediciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014. English. Via Amazon España.
Atlas Society Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks & Elizabeth Hayes of Students For Liberty Discuss The Immorality & Impracticality of Socialism. What is Socialism? Is it moral or immoral? What explains its continued popularity despite its history of failures? Recorded in Washington, DC, Professor Hicks responds to interviewer Elizabeth Hayes in this interview. Related: “The Crisis
My talk on the theme: Are the Culture Wars the new Cold War? 6:15 PM (BR) Inscrição (link to site).
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El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Para Hicks, estas escuelas de pensamiento están en constante conflicto. Por un lado, se encuentran los ídolos del sistema educativo de América Latina: Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche y Derrida. Por el otro, tenemos a Bacon, Locke, Newton, Smith,
Stephen Hicks with TAS CEO Jennifer Grossman and artist Michael Newberry. Newberry is a neo-romanticist painter based in Idyllwild, California. He blends a variety of influences, notably Rembrandt and the French Impressionists, and is the author of the outstanding new book Evolution Through Art. Related: Professor Hicks’s classic essay, “Why Art Became Ugly.” And this
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I will be speaking (in English!) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, tomorrow afternoon.
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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