Stephen Hicks

Beyond the “illusion of freedom and dignity” — Education Theory 10

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Eight: Realism and Education. What did the major Behaviorist thinkers and B.F. Skinner in particular believe, and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: […]

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Jean-Paul Sartre and “Existence precedes essence”

Stephen Hicks discusses Jean-Paul Sartre’s famous phrase “existence precedes essence” and its implications for the Existentialist view of human nature. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course. (See also my episode on Sartre’s essay “Existentialism Is a Humanism’ in the Philosophers, Explained series.)

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Professor Piotr Kostyło reviews *Nietzsche and the Nazis*

Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism By Professor Piotr Kostyło Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at Kasimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The forty-five years of communism in Poland (1944-1989) were marked by the government reminding society of the atrocities committed during World

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Peterson Academy live studio schedule for *Modern Philosophy* and *Postmodern Philosophy*

Below is the recording schedule for each lecture in my two courses, which will be presented live before a studio audience in Miami. For those in the area (or planning to be), free registration is here: Hicks Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy Two courses by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Schedule for studio

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Toohey’s five strategies of altruism [80th anniversary of *The Fountainhead* series]

The ethics of altruism holds that others are the standard of value. One is good to the extent one puts the interests of other first, acts to achieve their interests, and, when necessary, sacrifices one’s interests for their sake. In The Fountainhead, the character Ellsworth Toohey is the major strategist of altruism, and in my

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Quantifying Wokeness

The long march through the institutions in graphs. Check out series by data scientist David Rozado series on Twitter, especially the updated graphs posted in August 2022. * First, academic postmodernism’s high theory is developed in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, especially in philosophy. * Second, it spreads through other humanities fields (Literature,

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Invitation to attend live recording of my Peterson Academy courses

I’m happy to be joining the faculty of the new Peterson Academy, launching November 2023. I’ll be teaching two courses: Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy. (Syllabi forthcoming.) They’ll be recorded before a live studio audience in Miami, Florida. To attend, register here: https://petersonacademy.com/hicks.

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