Here is an example of a phenomenon that has long puzzled me: Nasty in-group fighting. In The Rise of Neo-Kantianism, Klaus Christian Köhnke asks: What can “explain one of the most distressing features of the neo-Kantians: the fierceness and bitterness of their polemics, the nastiness of their ad hominem arguments, which destroyed personal friendships and […]
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By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA Lecture 1: What is the purpose of education? Why is philosophy of fundamental importance to deciding one’s educational mission, curriculum, teaching and assessment methods, and even the location and architecture of one’s school? Other lectures in the series: Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education: The Creation Story,
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A world devastated by war. Sigmund Freud asserts “Man is a wolf to man.” Martin Heidegger — rejecting the Enlightenment and everything since ancient Greek philosophy — asks: “Are we allowed to tamper with the rule of ‘logic’?” Themes: The new psychology. Pessimism. Instinct and aggression. Logic as limiting. Emotions as accessing. Nihilism? World War
This lecture was given to UFM’s Psychology Faculty in October 2024. Themes: two anecdotes from the history of medicine, why we live in revolutionary times, what an entrepreneurial mindset is, why it’s essential for careers in this new era of robotics and AI, how entrepreneurism can re-focus one’s self-education and formal education. Related: “The Entrepreneurial
Javier Milei, President of Argentina, World Economic Forum Speech, January 2025 [Key concepts: wokeism, Leviathan State, Atlas Shrugged, Western values (Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian), freedom, creativity, capitalism, liberalism ] Good morning, everyone. How much has changed in such a short time. A year ago, I stood here before you alone and told some truths about the
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The “Heidegger Wars” are an academic battle about the significance of Martin Heidegger’s commitment to Natonal Socialism as an ideology and to the Nazi Party in particular. William H. F. Altman’s important book, Martin Heidegger and the First World War: Being and Time as Funeral Oration, opens with this question: “Was Martin Heidegger an apolitical
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Enacted on February 28, 1933, less than one month after Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor: § 1. Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of (opinion) expression,
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Related: “Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism” by Stephen Hicks.
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