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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Eleven: Existentialism and Education What did the major Existentialist thinkers—Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre in particular—believe and how they apply it to education? How are “Existence precedes essence” and “The Myth of Sisyphus” relevant to deciding our purposes in life? Previous lectures in the series: […]

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Ten: Behaviorism and Education. What did the major Behaviorist thinkers, and B.F. Skinner in particular, believe and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality:

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Nine: Pragmatism and Education. What did the great Pragmatist philosophers, and John Dewey in particular, believe and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality:

In his biography of Michel Foucault, James Miller notes this important Kantian element in Marx: “Although the Cartesian sense of subjectivist coincided with individual consciousness and the cogito, in German philosophy after Kant the term came to connote a universal faculty (in Kant, the transcendental ego as the condition of the unity of empirical perception).

15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Seven: Idealism and Education. What did the great Idealist philosophers believe and how did they apply it to education? The associated reading excerpts are here: Plato (https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/plato_republic-poe.pdf) and Kant (https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/kant_immanuel-poe.pdf). Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and

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

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

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

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