15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Six: Transition from Philosophical Issues to Integrated “Isms” and Education. If education is a systematic process of preparing one for life, how does one connect a full philosophy of life to an education strategy? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the […]
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Five: Ethics: If education is to prepare students for living the best possible life, what is that? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation Story, the
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Four: Human Nature and Education: Free Will and Determinism, Reason and Emotion, the Mind and the Body, and more. Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Three: Knowledge: Epistemology and Education. If education is about the transmission of knowledge, then what is knowledge? Or if it’s about training young people’s habits of mind, then what about alertness to evidence, skill with logic, and a commitment to reason? Does faith work? Is
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The full 15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Two: Metaphysics: Reality and Education Previous lectures in the series: Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Other lectures in the series forthcoming: Part Three: Epistemology: Knowledge and Education Part Four: Human Nature and Education Part Five:
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Other lectures in the series forthcoming: Part Two: Metaphysics: Reality and Education Part Three: Epistemology: Knowledge and Education Part Four: Human Nature and Education Part Five: Ethics: Values and Education Part Six: Integrated
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My paired conversations in the Encroaching Darkness series, “The Seeds of Collectivism” and “Encroaching Darkness.” Hosted by Michael O’Fallon and featuring James Lindsay and me in conversation. Description: When you listen to the moral language and rhetoric of our culture today, you less often hear appeals to “personal responsibility” and “rugged individualism” — and more
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Well said by Cornel West and Jeremy Tate, in response to yet another university’s shrinking its vision: “We must be vigilant and draw the distinction between Western civilization and philosophy on the one hand, and Western crimes on the other. The crimes spring from certain philosophies and certain aspects of the civilization, not all of
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Below is a transcript of my “Conversations with Marsha” discussion, first published at YouTube: Stephen Hicks on Liberal Education: What is it and what is it good for? Marsha Enright: Good morning, and I’m happy to be here with friend and longtime Great Connections advisor Stephen Hicks. This is Marsha Enright from the Great Connections.
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A link to our full conversation during the summer of 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the
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