On Sunday I will be in Morrison, Illinois, for this open-to-the public talk. Press release: Dr. Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University in Rockford, IL. He is the author of six books that have been translated into 20 languages: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism […]
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No, but he predicted the psychological type. Here’s Orwell on a large subset of Socialists in the early 20th century: “Sometimes, when I listen to these people talking, and still more when I read their books, I get the impression that, to them, the whole Socialist movement is no more than a kind of exciting
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“Poważne teorie ukryte za tłumieniem wolności słowa1” (PDF) is published in the journal Filozofia Edukacji. The original article in English. Thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for making the Polish publication possible. A few years ago my “Educating for Entrepreneurship” was published in Polish in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny. The Polish title of the article
Earlier this month in California I participated in this discussion with Robert Tracinski and Jennifer Grossman: * Why the polarized techno-optimism versus techno-pessimism? * What transformative technologies — e.g., artificial intelligences and robotics — are in the offing? * What is the role for good philosophy, e.g., Objectivism, in making and managing transformative technologies? Related:
Objectivism and Technological Trends Panel Read More »
I drew the first draft of this chart in 1997, when I began writing up my notes for what became Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The flowchart is from the end of Chapter 5 and summarizes the argument developed in that chapter. Click the image to enlarge. About those question marks
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I participated in this 24-minute panel with with this excellent duo, Jason Hill and Kmele Foster, at the The Atlas Society gala in California, October 2022. How is individualism the moral and inspirational solution to the crudity of racism, against the collectivist guilt-and-resentment approaches of Critical Race Theory and DEI? Related: Ayn Rand on Individual
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Question: Are the apocalypse-types driven by the specific *issues*, or is there a background *psychology* driving them and the issues are secondary?
The Apocalypse types Read More »
Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this call for mass sacrifice—from his Genealogy of Morals: “mankind in the mass sacrificed to the prosperity of a single stronger species of man — that would be an advance.” (GM II:12) Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche
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