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Open College launched: “Free Speech: Why the Philosophy Matters”

Reposting for weekend listeners, the first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech Topics and Times: What a meaningful life requires: [00:00 — 03:31] Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics [03:31 — 10:35] Walt Whitman quotation [09:28 — 10:35] Why the authoritarian left [10:35 […]

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Moses Mendelssohn in Explaining Postmodernism

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“The all-destroyer” — was how Moses Mendelssohn described his contemporary Immanuel Kant. For more on the context for Mendelssohn’s strong conclusion, see p. 50 of my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault. Information about other editions and translations is available at this dedicated page.

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“Free Speech: Why the Philosophy Matters” [Open College series]

The first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech Topics: What a meaningful life requires // Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics // Walt Whitman quotation // Why the authoritarian left? // How we got to where we are now // Galileo

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Upcoming: University of Minnesota, Students for Liberty

Gala in New York City — TAS’s annual celebration

On unprincipled political hacks, then and now

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As political winds blow, those whose principles are merely tactics change tack. But it’s especially galling when it’s professional legal and religious experts who reveal themselves so.

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“Notes on Punctuation,” by Lewis Thomas

THE NAUGHTY PREPOSITION, by Morris Bishop

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THE NAUGHTY PREPOSITION Morris Bishop I lately lost a preposition: It is, I thought, beneath my chair. And angrily I cried: “Perdition! Up from out of in under there!” Correctness is my vade mecum, And straggling phrases I abhor; And yet I wondered: “What should he come Up from out of in under for?”

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