Löwy raises the right question about the generation straddling 1900: So much of understanding the past 100 years turns on getting the answer right. That’s my project in Nietzsche and the Nazis and Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
Löwy on anti-capitalist intelligenstia Read More »
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
“Crito” | Plato | *Philosophers, Explained by Stephen Hicks Read More »
I’m preparing a lecture on philosopher David Hume, who was ruthlessly skeptical about everything—causality, abstraction, induction, objective morality, the self, and the existence of God. And I remembered this amusing anecdote: Related: My Philosophers, Explained series of close readings of major texts.
Hume’s bog and the Lord’s Prayer Read More »
In this interview conducted by artist and art critic Jan-Ove Tuv, I discuss Kant’s general philosophy and his philosophy of art. Kant is arguably the most influential philosopher in the last two centuries, and while it’s initially shocking to think that the priggish and uptight Kant has anything to do with the often-nihilistic modernist and
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Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox: “You’ve got to learn to lose. Most of the time in sports you lose. Only one team wins the World Series each year—29 of them don’t.” In Entrepreneurial Living, edited by Stephen R. C. Hicks and Jennifer Harrolle. In this volume of interviews with
Friedrich Nietzsche made this indictment and prediction about the effect of Immanuel Kant’s philosophy: “As soon as Kant would begin to exert a popular influence, we should find it reflected in the form of a gnawing and crumbling skepticism and relativism.” Strong language, and it goes against a popular interpretation of Kant as the savior
Why did Nietzsche say Kant leads to crumbling relativism? Read More »
Pope Lecture Series at Clemson University | Stephen Hicks In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks contrasts key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason.
Stephen Hicks’s “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education” Read More »
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series
Jan Vermeer | “Milkmaid” (1658) [Newberry on Great Art series] Read More »