Happily, my lecture at the University of British Columbia, Canada, now has over 330,000 views. It now also has the option of subtitles in English and Portuguese. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGbHG63x8w
UBC postmodernism lecture — now with subtitles Read More »
This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Virtue: knowledge? character? disposition? habit? action? 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
What Is Virtue? | Philosophy for Real Life (9 of 22) | Stephen Hicks Read More »
Nuestro problema con el Che Guevara Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. En la vida real, Guevara era un carcelero, torturador y asesino “igualitario”. No importaba si se trataba de defensores de la libertad de expresión, homosexuales, partidarios de la libertad de religión o amantes del rock and roll, dueños de negocios o enemigos ideológicos
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Calls for “Government-Business cooperation” to run the economy should be seen as skeptically as calls for “Government-Sex Clinic cooperation” to run our bedroom lives. Related: “From the Office of the Reproducer-General.“
Government and Sex // Government and Business Read More »
Opening line of a 1758 essay by David Hume: “Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.” (“Of the
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Adolf Hitler joined the Nazi party after being inspired by Gottfried Feder’s 1919 speech about the new party’s ideals. An indication of those ideals is in Feder’s 1919 publication, Manifesto for the Abolition of Enslavement to Interest on Money. Here’s an excerpt from (Nazi sympathizer) Hadding Scott’s translation of Feder’s manifesto: “The abolition of enslavement
When Adolf joined the Party Read More »
A year before the United States entered World War Two, the New York Herald Tribune published this report on a speech in Berlin by the German Fuehrer, Adolf Hitler: Hitler To ‘Defeat Entire World’ But He Says He’ll Pick the Time Fuehrer Adjures Workers to Toil and Be Patient, Asserts It’s a War of Labor
Hitler in the New York Herald Tribune, 1940 Read More »