In my Introduction to Philosophy course this semester, we read: PlatoJohn LockeImmanuel KantJohn DeweyB. F. SkinnerAlbert CamusJean-Paul SartreAyn RandMaria MontessoriKarl MarxMichel FoucaultHenry Giroux Diverse enough?
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. How does one define liberty? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on
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La hermana de Nietzsche y The Will to Power [transcripción de Open College] Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Este episodio está inspirado en mi re-lectura de The Will to Power de Nietzsche. […]”cada palabra de The Will to Power fue escrita por Nietzsche en sus cuadernos de notas de 1883-1888″. Así que tiene ese
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Why does integrity matter, and how are hypocrisy and integrity are opposites? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions.
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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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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Vamos a dejar de lado la política para centrarnos en la ética: ¿Es el sexo con robots algo bueno o algo malo? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. The original English version: “Sex with Robots? The Ethics.”
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. This clip: What is the source of self-dignity? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has
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Nobody should own another human being, yet parent have basic decision rights and responsibilities for their children. That view has long been challenged by philosophers and politicians of authoritarian bent. Circa 1000 BCE. Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus’s policy: “children were not so much the property of their parents as of the whole commonwealth, and, therefore, would
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Confession: I myself failed to notice the Village People’s violence, but the censors must know better. Apparently this list was circulated among the Communist Party’s higher-ups just before the Perestroika era.
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Dietrich was a Ph.D. in Political Science from Freiburg University (where later Martin Heidegger was professor of philosophy). In a 1934 lecture delivered at the University of Köln, Dietrich bases National Socialist political philosophy directly upon the philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. A key theme of the lecture is Universalism versus Individualism, where individualism
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