While in Argentina I gave a lecture on how deeply philosophical 20th-century art was and did some interviews on the Enlightenment, philosophy, postmodernism, and socialism. The interviews are forthcoming. The video of the lecture at ESEADE University is below and at YouTube. Professor Ivan Carrino’s introduction is in Spanish and my talk is in English.
Why Art Became Ugly — Buenos Aires video Read More »
The next episode is recorded and in production by Possibly Correct Publications: OC 33: Young People’s Socialism. The podcast will be available for free on social media (iTunes, Soundcloud, YouTube, etc.), and the transcriptions will be available to my subscribers at thinkspot. Related: The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.
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From 1884: “Time is a great logician, and succeeding generations will either press steadily on to the system that is the perfection of force, Socialism, or to the perfection of liberty, complete Individualism. If men believe that they may rightly use force to gain any of their objects, they will claim in their supposed interest
Polarization — insight from Auberon Herbert Read More »
Even making allowances for politicians’ blabbermouthing … … this is inane and the opposite of morality. * I earn $100 for myself. But earning $100 for my employer is more important? And infinitely so? * I do a good job mowing my lawn. But mowing my neighbor’s lawn is more important? * I successfully find
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A bold statement from Nobel-Prize-winning novelist Hermann Hesse: “The German intellectual has constantly rebelled against the word and against reason and courted music.” (From Steppenwolf, p. 152, Modern Library ed.) I like the spirit of it, as it fits with my assessment of mainline German philosophy in Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to
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This is still true: “The university teacher should, if he is fit for his position, be a person of a fair and judicial mind; he should, in dealing with such subjects, set forth justly, without suppression or innuendo, the divergent opinions of other investigators and he should, above all, remember that his business is not
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A common pattern–on widespread display in our generation: “People who are trying to prevent members of society from speaking the truth will often punish minor criticisms … simply to send the message to the rest of society that no dissent will be tolerated and no attempt to form an opposing group — even one that
SJW suppression psychology — why the viciousness? Read More »