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Background: Here’s a good summary of the Magness/Makovi paper on the influence of politics on Marx’s reputation. Aside from the cheap-shot responses by many of those outraged by the paper, there’s an intriguing philosophical inversion at work among the Outraged. Marx himself argued that the world develops with “iron necessity” in a strict causal priority: […]

In Chapter 5 of Postmodern Fables (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), Jean-François Lyotard writes this about the Iraqi dictatorship: “Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the ‘peace’ imposed on their countries by the victors of the Great War. Saddam

John Dewey, writing in Teacher Magazine: “There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural laws or moral absolutes.” “Soul Searching,” Teacher Magazine, Sept. 1933

Our topics with timestamps: 00:00:45 Introduction 00:01:18 Is Nietzsche’s philosophy positive? 00:03:06 Postmodernists as fundamentally jaded 00:03:48 Herbert Marcuse: Hermeneutics of Suspicion 00:07:26 Critical Theory: Marxism Modified? 00:12:00 Immanuel Kant-not postmodern, but… 00:17:08 More on Kant and the use of labels 00:26:29 Postmodernism’s discomfort with Categories and Labels 00:28:53 Marx or Rousseau as Guide? 00:35:37

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Lecture 14: Postmodernism, Foucault, Giroux, and Education: What is postmodern philosophy, and how do the views of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and other postmodernists apply to education in practice? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is

Stephen Hicks highlights underlying philosophical assumptions in discussions of race and racism. In Part 1, we evaluate claims such as the subjectivity of truth, life as a zero-sum game, and valuing group identity over individuality. Dr. Hicks is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA. What to listen for: 1. How are you viewing the

Maria Clara Vieira, Editor, Gazeta de Povo, March 2022Interview of Stephen R. C. Hicks To see the interview in Portuguese, please go to this link: Gazeta do Povo. “The fight with Wokism will get ugly, but rationality will prevail” Stephen Hicks 1) In conservative and “classic liberal” environments in Brazil, there is great concern with

Each a full-lecture explanation of the philosophy in general and its applications to curriculum, selection of teachers, methods of instruction, assessment, and school design. The six are: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Behaviorism, Existentialism, and Objectivism. Two more forthcoming: Marxism, Postmodernism. Related: The full course.

Sandra Woien, Ph.D., a philosopher at Arizona State University, has put together this fine volume of eighteen essays on Peterson’s thinking. Michael Shellenberger wrote the foreword. I have an essay in the book on Peterson’s pragmatic approach to religion. Here is the Table of Contents: Part I The Culture Warrior 1 1. Jordan Peterson, Secular