An ancient Turkish proverb says: When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a sultan.The palace becomes a circus. I recall that proverb, seemingly every election we have. Though it applies more generally: Places are what you make of them.
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La hermana de Nietzsche y The Will to Power [transcripción de Open College] Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Este episodio está inspirado en mi re-lectura de The Will to Power de Nietzsche. […]”cada palabra de The Will to Power fue escrita por Nietzsche en sus cuadernos de notas de 1883-1888″. Así que tiene ese
Mis artículos en español (my articles in Spanish): Nietzsche and his sister Read More »
For ease of browsing and navigation, this audio edition read by author Stephen R.C. Hicks now has timestamps for each chapter and section: 00:00:00 EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM 00:00:25 CHAPTER ONE: What Postmodernism Is 00:02:22 The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty 00:09:22 Modern and postmodern 00:12:22 Modernism and the Enlightenment 00:22:50 Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment 00:25:06
Audiobook with timestamping now (Explaining Postmodernism) Read More »
Worth reading: The full text of Young’s judicious 2022 article for Cato Policy Report. Related: Chapter One of Explaining Postmodernism for an overview of the Enlightenment against which the postmoderns are reacting. Full audiobook here. My Enlightenment Vision flowchart is pitched at a high level of abstraction, showing schematically how the philosophical revolution of the
Cathy Young’s “The Return of the Anti‐Enlightenment” Read More »
Choose your preferred cause (anti-Satan-worship, gay rights, Muhammed the prophet, veganism, anti-Communism, or whatever), and adapt this clause from Ontario’s Bill 67: “If the Minister learns, upon conducting an investigation or otherwise, that a member of the board does not have a proven commitment to racial equity in the education sector, the Minister shall require
How to revise Bill 67 (mandating CRT) to your preferred ideological values Read More »
For explanation, see my 10-minute discussion in this Current Events with Robert Tracinski:
Vladimir Putin has quoted Leontiev approvingly Read More »
My six-dimensional explanation, from the Philosophy of Education course series.
To define *Post-* Modernism, first define *Modernism* Read More »
Stephen Hicks interviewed José Cordeiro in the 44th episode of The Atlas Society Asks. José Luis Cordeiro Mateo is a Venezuelan Spanish engineer, economist, futurist, and transhumanist, who has worked on different areas including economic development, international relations, Latin America, the European Union, monetary policy, comparison of constitutions, energy trends, cryonics, and life extension. Related: “The Robots Will Free Us” at Open College.
In Case You Missed It: José Cordeiro with Stephen Hicks Read More »