You are a law-abiding citizen and a lover of art. You happen to be in a bar in Rome one night in 1506, where you witness a drunken, brawling Caravaggio kill an adversary. The day before, you had visited Caravaggio’s studio. You knew of two of his completed masterpieces, which you admire greatly. And in […]
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Part I of “From Modern to Postmodern Art and Beyond” focused on Modernism’s brutalism, reductionism, and conceptualism — and philosophy’s contributions from Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud. “By the beginning of the twentieth century, the nineteenth-century intellectual world’s sense of disquiet had become a full-blown anxiety. The artists responded, exploring in their works the implications of
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This week on the Atlas University course on Socialism we feature the Executive Summary of George Orwell’s “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy by F. Borkenau.” Orwell was clear-eyed about the dangers of authoritarian socialisms in Germany and Russia. In this 1940 review of The Totalitarian Enemy by Franz Borkenau, Orwell weighs the socialist credentials of Adolf Hitler’s
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This lecture was given in New York at the Foundation for the Advancement of Art’s conference. ‘For a long time critics of modern and postmodern art have relied on the “Isn’t that disgusting” strategy. By that I mean the strategy of pointing out that given works of art are ugly, trivial, or in bad taste,
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From the left environmentalists, we get the voluntary human extinction movement. From the religious right, we get the involuntarily human death movement. Left: Right: The two are superficial enemies culturally, yet both are anti-humanist philosophically. For human beings, life is the standard of value; and for healthy humans, life is good. True lovers of humanity
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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde and Maria Marty. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original version in English: “13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13 minutes.” Also Portuguese and German translations. These quick overview arguments were later developed into my primer book Liberalism Pro and Con.
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Today I’ll be recording a three-way conversation with Engineering Politics and Return to Reason on this topic: Fear, Paternalism, and Rousseau’s Return: A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Hicks The conversation will be recorded and posted soon on CEE Video Channel at YouTube and other platforms.
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Pleased with this result: The audiobook of Nietzsche and the Nazis crossed the two million mark. Nietzsche and the Nazis started as a documentary project that was picked up by Netflix for a few years. I then turned the script into a book, which was first published in English followed by several foreign-language translations and
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