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My travel/speaking schedule, September-December 2014

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The new academic year is beginning, and here is my line-up for the first semester: September 4: Santiago de Chile, Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Chile. Topic: “Philosophy, Education, and Entrepreneurship.” September 18-21: Tucson, Arizona, Liberty Fund Seminar. Topic: “Is the Decline of Liberty Inevitable?” October 10-11: University of Illinois, Springfield. Topic: “Thirteen Arguments for […]

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When Can Professors Have Sex with Their Students? [new “The Good Life” column]

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The opening of my latest column at EveryJoe: “Two sex scandals in philosophy departments have, well, scandalized the academic world recently. “One at the University of Miami in Florida led to the resignation of professor Colin McGinn. The other, at the University of Colorado, Boulder resulted in the removal of the department chair, Graeme Forbes.

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Educando para o empreendedorismo

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Educando para o empreendedorismo Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Rockford, Illinois, USA Tradução de Matheus Pacini. Introdução – visita de japoneses às escolas americanas Recentemente, um grupo de pesquisadores japoneses visitou os Estados Unidos para analisar seu sistema de ensino. O Japão é uma

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Zientkowski’s foreword to *Nietzsche and the Nazis*

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Dr. Przemysław Zientkowski’s foreword to the Polish edition of my Nietzsche and the Nazis, translated into English. A PDF version is here, and the HTML version follows. Foreword to the Polish edition of Stephen Hicks’s Nietzsche and the Nazis By Przemysław Zientkowski, Ph.D. History teaches us that in politics—in order to reinforce the message, achieve

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Two high-profile plagiarism cases — and two questions

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Chris Hedges and Slavoj Žižek. First question: If you’re a leftist, is plagiarism a bad thing? Left philosophy tends to argue that “knowledge” is a social product, that individuals are products of social circumstances, what’s yours is mine, and so on. Second question: WTF? These are both smart guys. They know they can think for

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Kostyło on postmodern dialectic of social care

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A fascinating article by a Polish philosopher, Professor Piotr Kostyło of the University of Casimir the Great. (Courtesy of the publisher, here is a PDF of Kostyło’s article.) Kostyło notes that this generation of postmodern thinkers seems to have turned against state-provided welfare programs. The usual left-right debate over welfare is between those who argue

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Preface to Polish translation of *Nietzsche and the Nazis*

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The Polish translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis was published by the Fundacji Fuhrmanna (Fuhrmann Foundation, 2014) as Nietzsche i naziści, moje spojrzenia. Here, in English, is the Preface to the Polish edition. Preface to the Polish translation Friedrich Nietzsche — has any other thinker exerted so much influence after his death? One measure of

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