Dr. Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at the University of Kasimir the Great, in Poland. Professor ‘s review essay, “Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism“ takes up my book Nietzsche and the Nazis and my individualist response to the philosophical world of Friedrich Nietzsche […]
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al español por Fermín Elizalde. Artículo original en inglés y Kindle. Introducción: los negocios y la sociedad libre Los defensores de la sociedad libre piensan en los negocios como una parte integral de la sociedad dinámica y progresista que defienden. En Occidente, el surgimiento de una cultura hospitalaria para los
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My article “Liberal Education and Its Postmodern Critics,” published in the scholarly journal Academic Questions, is now available here. From the opening: It is a truism to say that education is politicized. Yet my goal here is to show that politicized battles over education are mostly not about politics but about philosophy. Policy battles are
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“Because there is no time for thinking and no rest in thinking, we no longer weigh divergent views; we’re content to hate them.” (Human All-Too-Human, (1878), section 282) Certainly an apt diagnosis of some sub-cultures on social media. A different translation is available at this Project Gutenberg edition of HATH.
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From Aaron Mesh’s interview with Gregory McKelvey: “We must put ourselves in the minds of someone who probably rightfully believes the world is ending or, at a minimum, is on the brink of being unrecognizable with incredible amounts of death, pain and climate chaos. If the world is ending, some people are going to act
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Stephen Hicks: Philosopher, Highwayman By: Kevin Ryan The philosopher navigates from the passenger seat of our Mazda CX-3 as we cross Stone Arch Bridge in deepening afternoon, over the North Mississippi with its polluted blue water. “Everything is connected,” he says. “Everything has implications.” When he talks, he floats his hands. Throughout the day, random
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My Explaining Postmodernism was recently published in Hebrew translation, which led to this interview with Israeli scientist Roi Yozevitch. We focus on the inroads that political correctness and postmodernism are making are making into science. Dr. Roi Yozevitch, “Free Speech and PC in Academia, Science and Society. A conversation with Professor Stephen Hicks.”
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Old-time racists and sexists said: “Clear thinking — it’s not for woman, minorities, and gays.” Social-Justice Wokists today say: “Exactly!!” Rigorous thinking, according to some, is a virtue that leads to safe high-voltage electrical systems, pharmaceutical doses that are precisely calibrated, and bridges that stay up. Not so, says engineering Professor Donna Riley. Rather it
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My “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” was published in The Wall Street Journal. Here is a PDF version of the article. Snippet: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It can almost
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This is a work in progress. Corrections and additions welcome. The long comparison table below is also here in PDF format. Nietzsche and Rand: A Comparison of Positions on 124 Issues Stephen R.C. Hicks, Philosophy, Rockford University Updated June 2020 Summary 124 issues tabulated below with quotations and sources. Agreements between Nietzsche and Rand: 21
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