(Reprising this post on my favorite biography.) I finished Anthony Holden’s Tchaikovsky (Random House, 1995), an outstandingly well-written account of the great composer’s life. Here is an indication of the young Pyotr’s aptitude for music: “Tchaikovsky’s parents entertained a Polish pianist of their acquaintance, who naturally gave an evening concert for the thin line of […]
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Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism By Professor Piotr Kostyło Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at Kasimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The forty-five years of communism in Poland (1944-1989) were marked by the government reminding society of the atrocities committed during World
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33-minute lecture delivered by Dr. Stephen Hicks at the Museum of World War II, December 2022: Related: Martin Heidegger (“What Is Metaphysics?”) and Alexander Dugin (“Fascism—Borderless and Red”) in the Philosophers, Explained series.
I will be giving these public lectures in Poland in December: “Does Dugin Really Have a Political ‘Fourth Way’?” Location: Gdánsk, Museum of the Second World War. Date: December 16. “Mind-shift for 21st-Century Education: Entrepreneurism.” Location: Polish Educational Research Association. Date: December 13. “Entrepreneurial Thinking in Life for Students: How Can Educators Cultivate It?” University
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Reality demandsthat we also mention this:Life goes on.It continues at Cannae and Borodino,at Kosovo Polje and Guernica. There’s a gas stationon a little square in Jericho,and wet painton park benches in Bila Hora.Letters fly back and forthbetween Pearl Harbor and Hastings,a moving van passesbeneath the eye of the lion at Chaeronea,and the blooming orchards near
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Frankl was a Holocaust survivor and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School: I became acquainted with the last stages of corruption in my second concentration camp in Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity
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Timestamping is now done for the audiobook edition. Nietzsche and the Nazis: A Personal View was first produced as a documentary in 2006. The book version was published in 2010. Translations are available into Farsi, Spanish, Polish, Russian, and a few more languages. Table of Contents: Part 1. Introduction: Philosophy and History [YouTube] [5 minutes]
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Dr. Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at the University of Kasimir the Great, in Poland. Professor ‘s review essay, “Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism“ takes up my book Nietzsche and the Nazis and my individualist response to the philosophical world of Friedrich Nietzsche
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My “What Entrepreneurs Can Teach Us All About Life” was published in The Wall Street Journal. Here is a PDF version of the article: “We often think of entrepreneurs as larger-than-life characters. They take big risks. They make their own rules. They innovate and experiment, questioning things everybody else takes for granted. “It can almost seem
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Looking forward to a lively discussion. More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/271644190701431/. Coincidentally, a new translation of Nietzsche and the Nazis into Polish has just come out. And the Polish edition of Explaining Postmodernism is also out there.
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