Lecture in Warsaw, Poland, April 14. Kongres Pamięci Narodowej REGISTER HERE Professor Stephen Hicks is joining professors Stéphane Courtois, Grzegorz Kucharczyk and David Satter to give a lecture on “Clash with Totalitarianisms. Poland, 1939 – 1945,”. Moderated by Krzysztof Ziemiec 02:00PM – 03:30PM (Poland) About the Institute Mission The mission of the Institute of National […]
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Lecture in Warsaw, Poland, April 14. Kongres Pamięci Narodowej REGISTER HERE Professor Stephen Hicks is joining professors Stéphane Courtois, Grzegorz Kucharczyk and David Satter to give a lecture on “Clash with Totalitarianisms. Poland, 1939 – 1945,”. Moderated by Krzysztof Ziemiec 02:00PM – 03:30PM (Poland) About the Institute Mission The mission of the Institute of National
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Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 7: El poder es
Related: Close readings of authoritarian thinkers in the Philosophers, Explained series: Hegel, Gentile and Mussolini, Marx and Engels, Heidegger, Dugin, Nietzsche.
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Refreshing this quotation from Zeev Sternhell’s The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale University Press, 2010), a scholarly study of the most disturbing intellectual trend of the modern world — the ongoing lineage of intellectuals opposed to the Enlightenment tradition of reason, naturalism, individualism, and freedom. Along the way Sternhell asks, of Nietzsche’s place in the trend, an
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Reprising this open letter Douglass wrote in 1848 to Thomas Auld, his former master, on the tenth anniversary of his escape from slavery to freedom. TO MY OLD MASTER. Thomas Auld, Sir: The long and intimate, though by no means friendly, relation which unhappily subsisted between you and myself, leads me to hope that you
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The flowchart is from the end of Chapter 5 of Stephen Hicks, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy Publishing, 2004, 2011), summarizing the argument developed in that chapter. Click the image to enlarge. See also Professor Hicks’s discussions of the philosophers’ primary texts, in his Philosophers, Explained series:
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On the priority of character: “Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the State” (Apology, 30b). On the dangers of democracy: “No man on earth who conscientiously opposes you or any other organized democracy, and flatly prevents a great many wrongs and illegalities
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