Stephen Hicks discusses Ayn Rand on the Romantic sense of life. This is from Part 12 of his Philosophy of Education course. Previous: Introduction: Rand’s entrepreneurial philosophy. Next: Liberal politics. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Stephen Hicks discusses the debate over whether Existentialism is individualist. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: Assessment. Next: Contra the good-news-sunny-skies approach to life. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
Stephen Hicks discusses Camus’s interpretation of the Myth of Sisyphus and its implications for Existentialism. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: God is dead. Next: Jean-Paul Sartre and “Existence precedes essence.” Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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When I was teaching out east some years ago, I noted a Philadelphia Inquirer piece on the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. This organization, firmly in the grip of zero-sum anti-humanist environmentalism, was calling for the elimination of human beings by unspecified means. I expect that VHEMT’s members are no longer with us, but somehow the
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Stephen Hicks here discusses the Myth of Gyges. This is from Part 5 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. 1 Clip: Previous: Egoism’s educational mission. Next: Predation’s solution: power, aggression, win/lose. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
Stephen Hicks here discusses the predatory ethic’s response to the Myth of Gygess. This is from Part 5 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. 1 clip: Previous: The Myth of Gyges. Next: Altruism’s solution: selflessness, sacrifice, lose/win service to others. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Stephen Hicks here discusses altruism’s solution to the Myth of Gyges. This is from Part 5 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: Predation’s solution: power, aggression, win/lose. Next: The Three Options Chart Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Here Professor Hicks develops a three-dimensional chart to contrast egoism, altruism, and predation. This is from Part 5 of his Philosophy of Education course. Previous: Altruism’s solution: selflessness, sacrifice, lose/win service to others. Next: Role models in ethics. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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