Stephen Hicks’s “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education”

Pope Lecture Series at Clemson University | Stephen Hicks In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks contrasts key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. […]

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Jan Vermeer | “Milkmaid” (1658) [Newberry on Great Art series]

An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series

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Meditations on First Philosophy | René Descartes | *Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks

Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? 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

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Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger, in the “Only a God Can Save Us” documentary

The sections on Arendt and her relationship with philosopher Heidegger appear at the 17:46 and 1:11:23 times in Jeffrey Van Davis’s documentary on Martin Heidegger’s life and thought. See also the episode on Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?”, in the *Philosophers, Explained* series:

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Open Objectivism or Closed? Transcription of my Belgrade debate presentation

Ayn Rand Center Europe invited me and and Craig Biddle to Serbia to debate whether Objectivism is an open or closed philosophy. I argued for open and Mr. Biddle argued for closed. A recording of the debate follows. Also following the video window (or in this PDF) is a transcription of my remarks for those

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Rockford University professor Stephen Hicks’s advice to new students

The hard part about writing about education can be getting past all of the clichés. Excellence. Truth. Honor. Tradition. The Future. Yet those words do capture essential aspirations for education, especially for those of us at the kind of college Rockford is and can be. I want to focus here on excellence. All of my

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