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 […]
Much modernist and postmodernist architecture is ghastly. So there’s a point about making comparisons with older architecture. But not this way: Are the buildings on the left average buildings from 200 years ago? Or are they the best of 200 years ago, such that they were preserved while the 99% of average and terrible buildings
False comparisons of old and new architecture Read More »
The sections on Arendt and her relationship with philosopher Heidegger appear at the 17:46 and 1:11:23 times in Jeffrey Van Davis’s documentary on Martin Heidegger’s life and thought. See also the episode on Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?”, in the *Philosophers, Explained* series:
Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, in the “Only a God Can Save Us” documentary Read More »
Ayn Rand Center Europe invited me and and Craig Biddle to Serbia to debate whether Objectivism is an open or closed philosophy. I argued for open and Mr. Biddle argued for closed. A recording of the debate follows. Also following the video window (or in this PDF) is a transcription of my remarks for those
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The flowing Niobe Chiaramonti. Two minutes with John Gillis on her art-historical significance. Related: Stephen Hicks’s publications and lectures on art.
The Niobe Chiaramonti sculpture [John Gillis on Great Art series] Read More »
My long-form discussion with Robert Breedlove. On YouTube or Rumble. Outline of Topics: 00:00:00 – Coming up, Intro, Advertisement00:02:43 – Introducing Stephen Hicks 00:03:12 – The Philosophy of Money 00:06:29 – Money: A Social and Cultural Achievement 00:08:39 – Centrally Designed Money vs. Emergent Money 00:13:26 – The Origin of Money Outline of Topics, continued: 00:18:42 – Money: A
1 Immanuel Kant on the limits of reason. Critique of Pure Reason. 2 William James on pacifism and defeating militarism. “The Moral Equivalent of War.” 3 Galileo Galilei on not persecuting scientists. “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina.” Coming soon: The 30 in the first series include:
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At the beginning of the academic year, reprising this aspiration from C. Vann Woodward, Yale historian and author of The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955), which Martin Luther King, Jr. said was “the historical bible of the Civil Rights Movement.” The purpose of the university is not to make its members feel secure, content,
The purpose of the university — C. Vann Woodward quotation Read More »