Stephen Hicks

Education Theory 5: Ethics. What Is the Good Life?

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Five: Ethics: If education is to prepare students for living the best possible life, what is that? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation Story, the […]

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What Is Capitalism? | Philosophy for Real Life (14 of 22) | Stephen Hicks

Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on our lives. Some accept easy

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Education Theory 4: What is Human Nature? (Anthropology, Psychology, and Education)

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Four: Human Nature and Education: Free Will and Determinism, Reason and Emotion, the Mind and the Body, and more. Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation

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Pluckrose and Lindsay on the Gospel of Social Justice — book club discussion tonight

I’ll be participating in this discussion group tonight, based on Critical Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, who’ve done us all a great favor by publishing this 2020 book. Here’s a sample summing-up of where we are now: “in Social Justice scholarship, we continually read that patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism cisnormativity, heteronormativity, ableism,

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Dangerous Thoughts — on Critical Theory and the origins of Woke

Some sources of Wokism are psychological and some are intellectual, from groundwork laid by generations of thinkers. Carter and guest Stephen Hicks take up these questions: What is cancel culture — in contrast to liberal culture? What is the Enlightenment? Why does Rousseau matter? Was Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” part of the Enlightenment or the Counter-Enlightenment?

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Nietzsche’s Sheep and Wolves (and Humans). Sprouts animation collaboration, Part 2

Part Two: “Nietzsche: Sheep and Wolves” (6 minutes). Part One: “Nietzsche: God Is Dead” (7 minutes). Related: My book Nietzsche and the Nazis: print and e-book via Amazon, audiobook at YouTube. My article, “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” contrasting the two great thinkers: print (PDF) and audiobook at YouTube.

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