Imagine that this is your life story: You are born in Africa, possibly in Ethiopia or perhaps Chad, but as a child you are taken by Arab slavers and sold in Constantinople to the Sultan of Turkey, before long catching the eye of a Russian diplomat and spy, who acquires you and smuggles you out […]
Gannibal, “dark star of the Enlightenment” Read More »
An interview with Jeffrey Van Davis, the director of the documentary, Only a God Can Save Us (link.) Mr. Van Davis and Professor Hicks discuss the origins of the documentary, some details about its composition, his encounters with the Heidegger family, the premiere of the documentary, and more details on the life of Heidegger. Timestamps:
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Joseph McFadden is a New York artist and writer: “Joey and Stephen discuss the purpose of art; the state of fine arts education and the art world; the relationship between art and philosophy; 20th-century art; the triad of Marx, Freud, and Darwin; the relationship between Postmodernism and Marxism, and their impact on art & culture;
The State of ART EDUCATION: Joey McFadden interviews Stephen Hicks Read More »
Professor Kimberly Baxter’s article summarizes Hegel’s argument that the state’s higher ethical purposes necessitate war as a means. According to Hegel, war is a “positive moment” wherein the state asserts itself as an individual and establishing its rights and interests. Sacrifice on behalf of the the state is the “substantial tie between the state and
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Greenburg was the most influential art critic of the twentieth century. In the opening paragraph of his “Modernist Painting” (1960), Greenburg made a big claim: “Because he was the first to criticize the means itself of criticism, I conceive of Kant as, the first real Modernist.” Greenburg’s earlier “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” published in Partisan Review
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Fifty hours of my video lectures on Philosophy of Education are available free online. * The course cover issues from metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, and ethics that are directly relevant to education.* The lectures also cover major philosophies Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Behaviorism, Existentialism, Marxism, Objectivism, and Postmodernism — that have enormously influenced contemporary education.* Along
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Reprising from my interview with economist David Henderson: I asked him how economics came to be called the “dismal science.” The source, he explained, was Thomas Carlyle, the nineteenth-century historian and essayist. The surprising reason for his coining the phrase? Carlyle was attacking free-market liberals for advocating the end of slavery. Free-market liberals argued that
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The Farsi translation was published in Tehran, Iran. Much thanks to the translator, Mohsen Mahmoudi, to the publisher, Bourgeois Publishing in Teheran — and to everyone else involved in making this project happen. Here is information about all editions and translations of Nietzsche and the Nazis.
Farsi translation of *Nietzsche and the Nazis* — cover image Read More »