Stephen Hicks discusses Objectivism’s principle of the Primacy of Existence. This is from Part 12 of his Philosophy of Education course. Previous: Rational self-interest. Next: Consciousness as relational. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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From Part 2 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Here he presents one of the classic arguments for the existence of God and the consequent counter arguments over its strength. Clips 1-8: Previous: Comparing the two stories. Next: The argument from evil. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main
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Following up on an earlier post contrasting modernism with pre-modernism, I here contrast post-modernism to both. Postmodernism as a philosophical system is defined by means of its characteristic claims in the five major branches of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, ethics, and politics. Postmodernism as a historical movement is defined by the time of its
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Intellectual systems and movements are defined philosophically by means of their characteristic claims in the five major branches of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, ethics, and politics. As historical movements, they are defined by the time of their formulation and most vigorous activity. So in the following table I offer a definitions of pre-modernism and
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[This excerpt is from Chapter 2 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Metaphysical solutions to Kant: from Hegel to Nietzsche Georg W. F. Hegel’s philosophy is another fundamentally Counter-Enlightenment attack on reason and individualism. His philosophy is a partially secularized version of traditional Judeo-Christian cosmology. While Kant’s concerns centered upon epistemology,
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