Plato’s Allegory of the Cave Excerpt from Book 7 of The Republic (360 BCE) Written 360 B.C.E. [Socrates and Glaucon in conversation] [Socrates:] And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:—Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the […]
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In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys 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. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers
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WHAT FOUCAULT LIKED TO DO TO ARAB BOYS. Excerpt from Douglas Murray’s The War on the West (2022): It is always unpleasant—as well as unwise—for thinkers to lambaste each other because of the habits of their personal lives. The personal is not always political and is certainly not always philosophical. Yet in March 2021, a
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Our generation’s gender gap on abortion: And recall that a generation ago, the 7-2 Roe v. Wade decision was by an all-male Supreme Court. So a request to the angry-adversarial-feminist types: Let’s leave the gender ad hominem arguments out of the discussion, please.
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Four-minute clip from The John Cooper Show:
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This is a very good discussion and I recommend it as worth your time: My quibble is with the War-on-the-West formulation. It’s important to remember that it’s first a war in the West, not on the West. The ideas that animate the “anti-West” activists also originated within the West and are a long part of
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The MIT Free Expression Working Group was appointed by President Rafael Reif to review MIT’s free expression policies in response to the Abbot cancellation. John Chisholm‘s updating letter to the Working Group is published here with permission of the author. March 30, 2022 Dear Penny, Phil, Annalisa, Steve, and other members and partners of the
Duda Teixeira, Crusoé magazine Interview with Stephen R. C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy, Rockford University, USA Link to Portuguese edition; English follows. 1. Is there a Putinistic ideology? Or is it just a messy gathering of thoughts? Stephen Hicks: Putin’s expressed ideas do form a more or less coherent set of principles and plans, though
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