George Orwell in 1944: “The thing that strikes me more and more—and it strikes a lot of other people, too—is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time.” A perennial lesson: Useful political commentary is as much a matter of character as it is of informed intelligence. Source: George Orwell, “As I […]
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It would have taken me 30 minutes to write this. Grok did it in 20 seconds: Q: What is Stephen Hicks’s position on postmodernism? A: Stephen Hicks, a Canadian-American philosopher, is a prominent critic of postmodernism. In his book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (2004), he argues that postmodernism is a
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Here are the 10 countries with the highest average salaries (2025): 1. Luxembourg: $89,767/year2. Iceland: $87,421/year3. Switzerland: $83,332/year4. United States: $80,115/year5. Belgium: $73,206/year6. Norway: $71,972/year7. Austria: $71,167/year8. Netherlands: $70,185/year9. Denmark: $69,525/year10. Australia: $67,101/year Impressive. Yet consider also their population sizes: Luxembourg: 763 thousand. Iceland: 393 thousand. Switzerland: 8.9 million. United States: 340 million. Belgium: 11.8 million.
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I had no idea until I read this in Hugh Barnes’s Gannibal: The Moor of Petersburg: “Until the end of the eighteenth century, even houses of wealthy Russians were barely distinguishable from peasant huts.” Who knew? (File under Humor, Sarcasm.) More on Gannibal and Gannibal.
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By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA. Lecture 6: If education is a systematic process of preparing one for life, and a philosophy of life is an integrated set of views on metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, and values, how does one connect a full philosophy of life to an education strategy? Previous lectures in
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My essay is available at Amazon in Kindle e-book format. It was for awhile on the Social Science Research Network’s “Top Ten” list of papers in the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network. It has also been translated into Serbo-Croatian translation. Abstract: “Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however,
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“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.” Source: Immanuel Kant, “Second Preface,” Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), Bxxx. On the full context of Kant’s provocative claim: Related: On Kant’s role in the historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (print or e-book), or audiobook:
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In The Cambridge Companion to Kant, Professor Eva Schaper writes that Kant is “the father of modern aesthetics.”* While it’s initially shocking to think that the priggish and uptight Kant has anything to do with the often-nihilistic modern art world—Kant is arguably the most influential philosopher in the last two centuries—and it’s important for critics
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