“Rousseau’s Return” — Return to Reason and Engineering Politics discussion

My long-form discussion with Truman and Kevin on: What are the major differences between Marx’s socialism and Rousseau’s socialism? Why Rousseau is more important than Marx in today’s culture wars? What does being an adult mean, now that we’re so rich and free? Were the French Revolutionaries Rousseau’s disciples? The book under discussion: Explaining Postmodernism: […]

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Education Theory 2: What is Reality? (Metaphysics and Education)

The full 15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Two: Metaphysics: Reality and Education Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Other lectures in the series forthcoming: Part Three: Epistemology: Knowledge and Education Part Four: Human Nature and Education Part Five:

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Sexo con Robots? La Etica (Spanish translation of “Sex with Robots? The Ethics”)

Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Vamos a dejar de lado la política para centrarnos en la ética: ¿Es el sexo con robots algo bueno o algo malo? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. The original English version: “Sex with Robots? The Ethics.”

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Death by doctor — Kenyan traditional edition

Source: THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, March 25, 1991 Age-old practices spread lethal modern virus By Lorerta Tofani, Inquirer Staff Writer MACHAKOS, Kenya — The balding medicine man sharpened his pocketknife with another knife, filling his small rural office with the screech of metal. Then, dipping the smaller blade into a jar of herbs, he made two

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“Is Capitalism Good or Bad for the Poor?” [Session 5 of “The Capitalism Course” by Dr. Stephen Hicks]

Our next session will ask: “Is Capitalism Good or Bad for the Poor?” Marx said the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Pro-capitalists show data that in capitalist nations both rich and poor get richer. What then, retort the anti-capitalists, of the many poor people still in capitalist nations? When: Wednesday, December 8,

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Critical Race Theory in Math Education? — quick book review

This 2019 book published by Routledge, a mainstream educational publisher, crossed my social-media horizon today, so I read through the material available via Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature. The volume seems to be CRT-lite or a usual expression of concerns about racism. In either case, I didn’t notice anything indicating a heavy-duty advocacy of Critical Theory.

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