On Education | Immanuel Kant | Philosophers, Explained by Professor Stephen Hicks

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Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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Forthcoming chapter: “Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism”

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In Education and the State Edited by Professor Katarzyna Wronska (Poland) and Professor Julian Stern (UK) London: Routledge Publishers, 2024 Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism Stephen R.C. Hicks, Department of Philosophy, Rockford University, USA Abstract How do we educate students for jobs that do not exist yet? Education is preparation for life, and one’s work

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Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism [Nietzsche and the Nazis]

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[This is Appendix 3 of Nietzsche and the Nazis. Sources for the quotations are at the end of this post.] Appendix 3: Quotations on German anti-Semitism Martin Luther (1483-1546): “The Jews deserve to hang on gallows, seven times higher than ordinary thieves.” And: “We ought to take revenge on the Jews and kill them.”[189] Immanuel

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Eugène Delacroix | “Liberty Leading the People” (1830) | Newberry on Great Art series

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An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is an avant-garde figurative painter, writer, and teacher promoting evolutionary flourishing through his work. He does this through advances in color theory, body language, symbolism, and composition. Michael is the author of two books released in 2021: Evolution Through Art and Newberry

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Haters

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I’m all confused. The hot-headed Nietzsche’s startling line from his 1887 Genealogy of Morals has always stuck with me: “the truly great haters in world history have always been priests.” That’s from the First Essay, Section 7, in the context of his analysis of slave morality born of ressentiment. But now I read that, according

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This year’s Turner Prize for art, yawn

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The piece is broadly Postmodernist and specifically Symbolist, as it is recognizable objects (traffic barriers, flags, police tape) that are chosen, placed in a stylized space (gallery, prize competition) and with some textual suggestions (“austerity,” “Brexit,” “pandemic,” “hostile immigration policy”) so the viewer can infer the intended negative message about the state of the culture.

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Texts in Philosophy — late 2023 additions

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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Francis Bacon, The Great Instauration (1620). The New Organon (1620). Jacques Derrida, “Cogito & The History of Madness” (1963). Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Vol. 1 (1976). Werner Sombart, Chapter 1 of Merchants and Heroes (1915). Voltaire, Letters on England

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