John Stuart Mill: “To do as one would be done by, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.” Stephen Hicks: “Unless one is a masochist.” (Image by Roland Topor, 1960.) Related: John Stuart Mill’s great work on liberty of thought and expression:
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Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 2: La naturaleza humana
1. The young Friedrich Schiller wrote The Robbers (1781), a play that made him an overnight sensation. To deepen his education, he plunged into Kantian philosophy. As a result: His imagination, he feared, had abandoned him. Philosophical enquiries into Immanuel Kant’s philosophy had somehow eradicated his poetic sensibilities, and he felt that he was neither
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One-minute introduction to the series: Full Series playlist. Philosophers in the first series: Immanuel Kant Plato Galileo Galilei Ayn Rand Jean-Jacques Rousseau René Descartes Jean-Paul Sartre Socrates Martin Heidegger Thomas Aquinas Arachne and Athena Aristotle Albert Camus Friedrich Nietzsche John Dewey Sigmund Freud G.W.F. Hegel William James Søren Kierkegaard John Locke Karl Marx John Stuart
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On Sunday I will be in Morrison, Illinois, for this open-to-the public talk. Press release: Dr. Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University in Rockford, IL. He is the author of six books that have been translated into 20 languages: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism
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“Poważne teorie ukryte za tłumieniem wolności słowa1” (PDF) is published in the journal Filozofia Edukacji. The original article in English. Thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for making the Polish publication possible. A few years ago my “Educating for Entrepreneurship” was published in Polish in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny. The Polish title of the article
Earlier this month in California I participated in this discussion with Robert Tracinski and Jennifer Grossman: * Why the polarized techno-optimism versus techno-pessimism? * What transformative technologies — e.g., artificial intelligences and robotics — are in the offing? * What is the role for good philosophy, e.g., Objectivism, in making and managing transformative technologies? Related:
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Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 1: El capitalismo liberal
I drew the first draft of this chart in 1997, when I began writing up my notes for what became Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The flowchart is from the end of Chapter 5 and summarizes the argument developed in that chapter. Click the image to enlarge. About those question marks
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I participated in this 24-minute panel with with this excellent duo, Jason Hill and Kmele Foster, at the The Atlas Society gala in California, October 2022. How is individualism the moral and inspirational solution to the crudity of racism, against the collectivist guilt-and-resentment approaches of Critical Race Theory and DEI? Related: Ayn Rand on Individual
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