Below is a transcription of the video available YouTube and StephenHicks.org. Philosophy and a Century of War (transcription) Stephen R. C. Hicks Philosophy has a reputation for being abstract and difficult, which it certainly can be. It also has a reputation for being impractical, which it definitely is not. So today I want to give […]
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Imagine the following news report: ‘Children’s Publishing, Inc., has reached a $105 million settlement with several U.S. states over the unlawful market of its history books. The book publishing company did not admit wrongdoing but confirmed its agreement with 44 states and the U.S. Department of Education. “The settlement requires CPI to pay a penalty
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The text is below and in PDF format. It’s also forthcoming in Polish in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny. Educating for Entrepreneurship (Working Paper, June 2014) Stephen R.C. Hicks Department of Philosophy and Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship Rockford University Rockford, Illinois, USA Introduction: Japanese visitors to American schools Recently a team of Japanese investigators
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Michael R. Bloomberg’s “Don’t Major in Intolerance.” Delivered at Harvard University. (Via Z.C.) William H. McRaven’s “Life Lessons From Navy SEAL Training.” Delivered at the University of Texas at Austin.
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The Polish translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis has now officially been published by the Fundacji Fuhrmanna (Fuhrmann Foundation) as Nietzsche i naziści, moje spojrzenia. Many thanks to Dr. Przemysław Zientkowski for arranging this translation and publication, as well as to the translator, Izabela Kłodzinska. The cover was designed by Bartek.Balaa.Nowak. Information about other editions
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Explicando o Pós-modernismo: Ceticismo e socialismo — de Rousseau a Foucault Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy, 2004).Portugués: Faro Editorial (São Paulo, 2021). Amazon Brazil. E-book. Amazon Kindle. Barnes & Noble Nook. iTunes.Resumo: O Pós-modernismo, por abordar temas que afligem o homem de hoje —
Add this to your “Why Art Education Is Important” file: “You can deduce everything about a woman from the way she holds her feet,” Edouard Manet once said to Stephen Mallarmé. “Seductive women always turn their feet out. Don’t expect to get anywhere with a woman who turns her feet in.”[1] Which makes this painting
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On Tuesday, May 20, I’ll be giving a lecture at Gdańsk University on “Ethics and the Arguments for and against Liberalism.” Thanks to Professor Andrzej Kubka for the invitation. While in Poland I’m also giving lectures at Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń and the University of Casimir the Great in Bydgoszcz. The lecture tour was
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“O que a ética empresarial pode aprender com o empreendedorismo” [pdf] Stephen R. C. Hicks Departamento de Filosofia e Centro para a Ética e Empreendedorismo Rockford University, Illinois, USA Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês em The Journal of Private Enterprise 24(2), 2009, 49-57. Tradução por Matheus Pacini. Revisão por Vinicius Cintra, 2014. Resumo O
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The one-hour video of my lecture is at the Atlas Society site and at YouTube. The lecture starts at 3:40, after the introduction, and is about 45 minutes long, followed by a question-and-answer session. The sub-topics are: * 13 initial arguments for liberal capitalism. * Some quotations from Mises, Schumpeter, Jouvenel, Smith, Hayek, Mill, Rand,