Socialism from failure to failure to now
I made this chart 22 years ago, when I was writing Explaining Postmodernism. Happy to see it making the rounds again. (Thanks to Victor M.)
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Mary Astell (1666–1731) commentaries and book collection
For those interested in early modern philosophy: Report on Astell’s collection at Magdalene College, Cambridge.
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Professor Steven Sanders’ review of *Explaining Postmodernism*
Steven Sanders, Ph.D., is professor of philosophy at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts. “Hicks writes about modern European philosophy and the Anglo-American tradition with sophistication and an eye for the thought-revealing anecdote.” Reason Papers 28 (Spring 2006): 111-124. Copyright © 2006Stephen R. C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to FoucaultA DiscussionSteven M. SandersBridgewater
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Ten topics in applied Objectivism — interviewed by Mark Michael Lewis [Transcript]
Interviewer Mark Michael Lewis and I had an extended conversation about philosophy and its applications to education, business ethics, postmodernism, and entrepreneurship. A video of this interview is available at YouTube. Here is the transcript: Mark Lewis: Welcome to a new edition of Becoming an Ayn Rand Hero, where we use the ideas of Ayn Rand
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Best history of philosophy? My recommendation
W. T. Jones’s A History of Western Philosophy is excellent on all the major philosophers and integrates them well into historical context. He’s also a clear writer, which can be rare in philosophy. Also, one does not have to read the philosophers in historical order, as the presentations are self-contained and/or context-established along the way.
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Cancel Culture defined
Contrasting liberal to cancel culture. Image and text versions below, should you want to modify for yourself. Cancel Culture defined Liberal Culture Cancel Culture Range of opinion? Expect diversity of Expect uniformity of Attitude toward those who disagree? Tolerance of the eccentric Hostility to the deviant Atmosphere encouraged? Benevolence Fear
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Vaccination rates by country, as of Feb. 26
For Covid-19, select countries as of February 26, 2021: Israel: 87% UK: 29% USA: 20.6% Turkey: 10% Canada: 4.5% Argentina: 1.9% New Zealand: 0.02% Fuller source for statistics: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1194939/rate-covid-vaccination-by-county-worldwide/
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St. Augustine against anatomy and science
Following up on two posts on the achievements of modern anatomy (“The Knife Man” and “Anatomy and Philosophy”), here is St. Augustine (354-430) disapproving of the practice: “With a cruel zeal for science, some medical men, who are called anatomists, have dissected the bodies of the dead, and sometimes even of sick persons who have
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