Schleiermacher: “I repudiated rational thought in favour of a theology of feeling.”

“I repudiated rational thought in favour of a theology of feeling.” * This article in Oxford Academic notes that “Kant’s philosophy is one of the most important presuppositions of Schleiermacher’s thought and that his work would have been unthinkable without Kant’s.”  * Source: Schleiermacher, Friedrich. The Christian Faith [1821-22]. Ed. H. R. Mackintosh and J. […]

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Realism and Education: Aristotle and Locke [Lecture 8 of Philosophy of Education course]

By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA. Lecture 8: What did the great Realist philosophers believe—e.g., “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed”—and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education.

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ABSOLUTE DUTY: KANT. Lecture 2 of Philosophy of Ethics course [Peterson Academy]

“Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.” Lecture Two: Absolute Duty Themes: Purifying Ethics. Divine Command Theory. Moses. Uzzah. Whose interests: Egoist, Predatory, Altruist? None: Deontology. Texts: Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and Critique of Practical Reason About the Instructor Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. is Professor of

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Marxists and Violence — quotations, podcast, and video

Following up on posts on Marxism and its fellow travelers (Engels, Mao, Guzmán, Hobsbawm), a question about whether Marxism’s brutal history is a built-in consequence of its principles or an accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory. So a series of quotations (with sources) from some principal figures: Marx in 1848: “there is only one way in

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Derrida: Deconstruction is “within the tradition of a certain Marxism.”

“Deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also within the tradition of a certain Marxism in a certain spirit of Marxism.” Source: Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx. Routledge, 1994. Related: On the fuller context of Derrida’s provocative claim: Related: On Derrida’s place in

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