A fascinating article at Reservatio’s substack on the battles over Kant. While Putin has called Immanuel Kant one of his two favorite philosophers, in this new era of Russian nationalism and the Kaliningrad governor’s recent accusation, the deep question now is whether Immanuel is actually a subversive agent of Western imperialism. Fortunately, “government-loyal Russian philosophers“ […]
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Philosophers, Explained covers the great philosophical classics. In this episode, Dr. Hicks discusses the philosophical issues—the source of creativity, truth, power, morality and justice—involved in this classic myth about the origin of spiders. Other episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting
Don’t miss this debate that featured Stephen Hicks, and author Thaddeus Russell. Soho Forum director Gene Epstein moderated. Related:
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At the beginning of a new era, Bacon asks: * What can make science and philosophy productive and generative, not stagnant and sterile as it currently is? * Should we really give tradition much credence? * Learning begins with the senses, but how do we overcome our senses’ and intellects’ native weaknesses? * What is
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A debate from 2014, I believe, between Andrew Bernstein and Dinesh D’Souza, hosted at the University of Texas. Arguments about religion typically fall into three categories: 1. Philosophical arguments about supernaturalism, faith and reason, the source of morality, and so on.2. Scriptural arguments about passages in the religion’s core texts.3. Historical arguments about the record
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Via Classically Liberal, reprising this intriguing connection. In a letter to his former master, Frederick Douglass explains his decision to escape from slavery: “The morality of the act, I dispose as follows: I am myself; you are yourself; we are two distinct persons, equal persons. What you are, I am. You are a man, and
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In a letter from 1890, Karl Marx’s colleague takes up the widespread anti-Semitism in their movement. My favorite line: “anti-Semitism betokens a retarded culture.” (Still true 130+ years later.) Further from Engels: “Hence anti-Semitism is merely the reaction of declining medieval social strata against a modern society consisting essentially of capitalists and wage-labourers, so that
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