Hegel: “The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth”

“The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth.” Source: Georg Hegel, Philosophy of History [1830/1831]. Related: On the fuller context of Hegel’s provocative claim: Related: On Hegel’s place in the historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (print or e-book), or audiobook:

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The “viciousness and dishonesty” of our time’s political controversies

George Orwell in 1944: “The thing that strikes me more and more—and it strikes a lot of other people, too—is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time.” A perennial lesson: Useful political commentary is as much a matter of character as it is of informed intelligence. Source: George Orwell, “As I

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Top salaries and countries’ population size:

Here are the 10 countries with the highest average salaries (2025): 1. Luxembourg: $89,767/year​2. Iceland: $87,421/year​3. Switzerland: $83,332/year​4. United States: $80,115/year​5. Belgium: $73,206/year​6. Norway: $71,972/year​7. Austria: $71,167/year​8. Netherlands: $70,185/year​9. Denmark: $69,525/year​10. Australia: $67,101/year​ ​Impressive. Yet consider also their population sizes: Luxembourg: 763 thousand. Iceland: 393 thousand. Switzerland: 8.9 million. United States: 340 million. Belgium: 11.8 million.

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*Integrating* Philosophies of Education [Lecture 6 of Philosophy of Education course]

By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA. Lecture 6: If education is a systematic process of preparing one for life, and a philosophy of life is an integrated set of views on metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, and values, how does one connect a full philosophy of life to an education strategy? Previous lectures in

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Kindle and audio versions: “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

My essay is available at Amazon in Kindle e-book format. It was for awhile on the Social Science Research Network’s “Top Ten” list of papers in the Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network. It has also been translated into Serbo-Croatian translation. Abstract: “Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however,

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Kant: “I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith”

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.” Source: Immanuel Kant, “Second Preface,” Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), Bxxx. On the full context of Kant’s provocative claim: Related: On Kant’s role in the historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (print or e-book), or audiobook:

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