In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek noticed the many students who went to Europe (especially to France and Germany) to study in the 1920s and 30s: “Many a university teacher during the 1930’s has seen English and American students return from the Continent uncertain whether they were communists or Nazis and certain only that they […]
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Trailer here: “Many of you repeatedly asked us to cover Nietzsche’s thought-provoking ideas. We very lucky to have collaborated on this project with Professor Stephen Hicks — a Canadian-American philosopher, who published several texts on Nietzsche, including the book Nietzsche and the Nazis. The full description with video links here.
For years I’ve used the Borden case in my Critical Thinking course. The case became part of American folklore, generating anonymous ditties like this: Lizzie Borden took an axAnd gave her mother forty whacks,And when she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one. Yet she was found Not Guilty at trial. Why? I
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Postmodern Philosophy A course by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Eight lectures. Key philosophers and philosophies since 1900 CE, with focus on the proponents and opponents of Postmodernism. Major thinkers covered: Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Ayn Rand, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida,
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Reprising this on why some cultures become great explorers and others stay home: the role of metaphysics. “And as for trying to sail down the west African coast, everyone knew that as soon as you passed the Canary Islands you would be in the Mare Tenebroso, the Sea of Darkness: ‘In the medieval imagination [writes
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It was twenty years ago this summer that EP came out. Full title: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The book is an intellectual history of the roots of postmodernism. One-sentence thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible; the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary. I’m pleased that the book has
20th Anniversary of *Explaining Postmodernism* Read More »
I’ll be participating in four sessions during the three-day conference in downtown Washington, speaking on the state of the culture, Woke, moral philosophy, and applied epistemology. Are We Doomed—Or on the Edge of a New Golden Age? State of the Culture panel w/ Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., Richard M. Salsman, Ph.D., & Robert Tracinski A look
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A spot more cultural history following up on my “80%” comment about British culture–in response to a line from Nigel Farage saying “everything in our country and culture is based on Judeo-Christian values.” Consider the education of future British leaders from the 1600s through the 1800s, the formative years for modern British culture. In modern
British culture as 80% Greco-Roman — another datum Read More »