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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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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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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Jennifer Grossman, CEO of The Atlas Society interviews senior scholar Stephen Hicks on Black Lives, Matter, Covid, postmodernism, Cultural Marxism, and varieties of racism. This interview and Q&A was first published at YouTube in 2020. Below is a transcription. SUMMARY KEYWORDS: Racism, postmodernism, individualism, Marxism, reparations, capitalism, justice, institutional racism, Black Lives Matter SPEAKERS: Jennifer
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“Stephen Hicks, a professor of philosophy at Rockford College, has produced a clearly written, concise book explaining just what postmodern philosophy is and how it arose, and he has done so in an admirable way.”
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Topics and Times: What a meaningful life requires: [00:00 — 03:31] Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics [03:31 — 10:35] Walt Whitman quotation [09:28 — 10:35] Why the authoritarian left [10:35 — 13:53] Advertisement: StephenHicks.org [13:53 — 14:46] How we got to where we are now [14:46 — 45:19] The
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El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Para Hicks, estas escuelas de pensamiento están en constante conflicto. Por un lado, se encuentran los ídolos del sistema educativo de América Latina: Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche y Derrida. Por el otro, tenemos a Bacon, Locke, Newton, Smith,
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I reviewed Capaldi and Lloyd’s book for Law and Liberty. Here’s the Amazon link to the book itself: Liberty and Equality in Political Economy: From Locke versus Rousseau to the Present. Related: Our CEE interview with Professor Capaldi for our Profiles in Liberty series.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. Original English publication: “Does Kant Have a Place in Classical Liberalism?” in Cato Unbound. La respuesta es complicada. Cualquier lectura de la gran masa de escritos de Kant nos ofrece inicialmente una mezcla de argumentos liberales y anti liberales que se encuentran e conflicto. Él defendió
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