Philosophy

Art and Ideas: Michael Newberry & Stephen Hicks [In Case You Missed It]

Stephen Hicks with TAS CEO Jennifer Grossman and artist Michael Newberry. Newberry is a neo-romanticist painter based in Idyllwild, California. He blends a variety of influences, notably Rembrandt and the French Impressionists, and is the author of the outstanding new book Evolution Through Art. Related: Professor Hicks’s classic essay, “Why Art Became Ugly.” And this […]

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Nietzsche on Kant, and his influence upon Postmodernism [Pope Lecture]

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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Jordan B. Peterson and Stephen R. C. Hicks: “Postmodernism: History and Diagnosis” [In Case You Missed It]

Jordan B. Peterson interviewed Stephen R. C. Hicks about postmodernism, its history, and its diagnosis. Jordan Bernt Peterson is a Canadian clinical psychologist, YouTube personality, author, and a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto. Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois. For related videos on postmodernism and philosophy, please visit our CEE Video Channel.

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TODAY: Stephen Hicks: Ask Me Anything about Ethics

Join us on this “Ask Me Anything about Ethics” event. Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks Wednesday, April 6 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Ethics” event where Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on ethics and questions from our 63K Instagram followers. Not yet on Clubhouse, and

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The Anti-Capitalism Course: “Next Generation Socialism?” Next week.

With Stephen Hicks, Ph.D The fourth session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Next Generation Socialism?” Link to register for the session at Kazm. Reading in preparation for the session: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism” (1993). And for the ambitious, Heilbroner’s earlier “What Is Socialism?”, Dissent Magazine (1978).  You can also check out the first three sessions at Kazm.

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