I hereby announce a contest: What is the longest sentence ever written by a philosopher? The kind of sentence that, as you are reading it through — trying to hold the context and decipher the meaning — flows majestically onwards, or meanders along deceptively, with occasional side streams (and parenthetical remarks), until your cerebrum is […]
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I vote for Francis Bacon. The standard answer gives the honor to René Descartes.
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Dr. David Mayer on his lecture, “Thomas Jefferson and the Holy Cause of Freedom,” about Jefferson’s writings on the nature and importance of liberty. Part I Part II More interviews with CEE’s guest speakers are available here.
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Insights from my students collected over the years. Updated this semester. I offer you: “A Student History of Philosophy” (Being a compilation of student research, gently edited by Stephen Hicks, Rockford College). [pdf]
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1/31 A good post from Robert Bruner, Dean of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. A key quotation: “Artists in business are visionaries, inventors, entrepreneurs, and general managers, people who create something larger out of the assembly of resources, 2+2=5. They are quick learners; they recognize problems and opportunities ahead of the crowd; they shape large
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Nietzsche and the Nazis, A Personal View by Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. Publisher: Ockham’s Razor Publishing, 2006.Format: 2:45-hour DVD documentary. Featured at Netflix. Reviewed by Professor Tibor Machan. [Go to the Nietzsche and the Nazis page. Go to the StephenHicks.org main page.]
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to FoucaultScholargy Publishing, 2004. The following scholarly reviews have been published:Professor Gary Jason in LibertyProfessor Curtis Hancock in The Review of Metaphysics (and can be read online here)Professor Marcus Verhaegh in The Independent ReviewDr. David Gordon in The Mises ReviewProfessor Max Hocutt in The Journal of Ayn Rand
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