Following up on a series of posts about Michelangelo, Beethoven, and Liszt. From Frederic V. Grunfeld’s very good Rodin: A Biography, the answer in the case of August Rodin is education and self education. Rodin was born into a French culture in which the large majority of the population was illiterate or semi-literate. The fact […]
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The allegory is a full philosophical illustration of a dualistic metaphysics, a “purified” cognitive theory, a pessimistic assessment of (most) humans’ ambitions, and a justification of compulsion in education and politics. The full series:
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a figurative painter, teacher, and author of Evolution Through Art and Newberry Color Theory. The full 29-work list is below. Michael Newberry, Commentaries on 29 Great Art Works: 1. Geometric Warrior, 8th century BCE 2. Kroisos, 540-515 BCE 3. Aphrodite
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I’m again doing some work on the philosophy of money, now that we’re into the Bitcoin and crypto era, so reprising this piece. At the Library of Law and Liberty’s site — my reaction to Leonidas Zelmanovitz’s ambitious work in the philosophy of money: Review of The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of
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“Tell something to children, tell them the whole thing right to the end, and they’ll still ask: Then what? What comes next?”
“Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers will always be children.”
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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
Philosopher Lewis White Beck was selected to write the entry on “German Philosophy” for The Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He wrote: “Immanuel Kant was to put almost every fundamental concept of the Enlightenment in jeopardy.” That is a striking claim, as it goes against a standard interpretation of Kant as a paragon of the Enlightenment. Immanuel
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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.