Below is the recording schedule for each lecture in my two courses, which will be presented live before a studio audience in Miami. For those in the area (or planning to be), free registration is here: Hicks Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy Two courses by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Schedule for studio […]
The ethics of altruism holds that others are the standard of value. One is good to the extent one puts the interests of other first, acts to achieve their interests, and, when necessary, sacrifices one’s interests for their sake. In The Fountainhead, the character Ellsworth Toohey is the major strategist of altruism, and in my
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The long march through the institutions in graphs. Check out series by data scientist David Rozado series on Twitter, especially the updated graphs posted in August 2022. * First, academic postmodernism’s high theory is developed in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, especially in philosophy. * Second, it spreads through other humanities fields (Literature,
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian
I’m happy to be joining the faculty of the new Peterson Academy, launching November 2023. I’ll be teaching two courses: Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy. (Syllabi forthcoming.) They’ll be recorded before a live studio audience in Miami, Florida. To attend, register here: https://petersonacademy.com/hicks.
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian
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In this episode of Philosophers, Explained, Dr. Hicks discusses the open letter Galileo wrote arguing that true science and true religion are in fact compatible. Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University
Reprising this from Thomas Akehurst’s Philosophy Now essay on why Bertrand Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy: “What is less well known is that in the 1930s and 1940s Russell’s attention turned to the idea that the origins of Nazism were primarily philosophical.” Russelll, according to Akehurst, mentioned several German philosophers by name, among
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