Dagny and Nike
Now I remember what this picture of Dagny Taggart reminded me of. Works of art, indeed.
Film
Atlas Shrugged movie — first reaction
As someone who read and loved the book, this movie totally worked for me. Schilling’s Dagny is intelligent, emotionally expressive, and beautiful. Bowler’s Hank Rearden is equally intelligent and competent, with occasionally bemused, understated humor and equally occasionally understated anger. And the sexual chemistry between the two — yes, indeed. Wisocky is tone-perfect as that
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1955 movie Marty
I recently watched Marty for the first time. The film stars Ernest Borgnine, and it won the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture along with three other Oscars, so I figured I should watch it. My five-sentence summary: Marty’s gonna run a fine butcher shop some day. Lonely Marty finally meets a girl who’s a
Reason–a developmental story
Professor Hicks here discusses our faculty of reason and its development from infancy to maturity. This is from Part 3 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-4: Previous: Introduction: What epistemology is. Next: The Semmelweis case. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Hindsight and future resolve [Section 40 of Nietzsche and the Nazis]
[This is Section 40 of Nietzsche and the Nazis.] Part 8. Conclusion: Nazi and Anti-Nazi Philosophies 40. Hindsight and future resolve We know from historical hindsight that it took a world war to defeat the Nazis. Tens of millions of human beings died in that war. Actual human beings who lived, loved, cried, had dreams—and
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