By Stephen R. C. Hicks The many Scrooges // Robin Hood analogy // Scrooge as villain of Socialism // as anti-Christian // as Savvy Investor // as Environmentalist // as Malthusian // as anti-Commercialization // Scrooge’s Aristotelian hero’s journey We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol […]
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¿Por qué la filosofía comienza con Thales? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original English version: “Why Philosophy Begins with Thales.”
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on our lives. Some accept easy
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Tonight, the final live session of The Capitalism Course, live session: “Is Capitalism Good or Bad for the Environment?” When: Wednesday, December 22, 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Where: MyJunto. Registration is free and open. The whole course series of topics: “The Capitalism Course” To register, go to MyJunto or visit this Facebook announcement page.
15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Four: Human Nature and Education: Free Will and Determinism, Reason and Emotion, the Mind and the Body, and more. Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation
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I’ll be participating in this discussion group tonight, based on Critical Cynical Theories by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay, who’ve done us all a great favor by publishing this 2020 book. Here’s a sample summing-up of where we are now: “in Social Justice scholarship, we continually read that patriarchy, white supremacy, imperialism cisnormativity, heteronormativity, ableism,
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Some sources of Wokism are psychological and some are intellectual, from groundwork laid by generations of thinkers. Carter and guest Stephen Hicks take up these questions: What is cancel culture — in contrast to liberal culture? What is the Enlightenment? Why does Rousseau matter? Was Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” part of the Enlightenment or the Counter-Enlightenment?
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Part Two: “Nietzsche: Sheep and Wolves” (6 minutes). Part One: “Nietzsche: God Is Dead” (7 minutes). Related: My book Nietzsche and the Nazis: print and e-book via Amazon, audiobook at YouTube. My article, “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand,” contrasting the two great thinkers: print (PDF) and audiobook at YouTube.
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