El Capitalismo Liberal Genera Más Filantropía [*Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español]

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. Argumento 7: El capitalismo liberal genera más

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Stephen Hicks | The Life & Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche

Ryan Faulkner-Hogg and I had three long-form conversations about Nietzsche’s intellectual journey, one conversation on his early activities, one on the middle works, and one on his later life. At Atlas Geographica channel, all three conversations are integrated into a three-hour uber-conversation: Related: * Nietzsche and the Nazis.* Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.

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Is Scandinavia “democratic socialist” while the USA is “capitalist”?

The Scandinavian nations are consistently in the top 10% most free-market capitalist nations, and more so than the USA which is currently ranked 25th.  That’s been the case for the last generation of rankings in, e.g., this Index of Economic Freedom. The Index ranks 177 nations around the world. That means the top 18 nations

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Los Pobres Están Mejor Bajo el Capitalismo Liberal [*Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español]

Quince argumentos para el Liberalismo: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro Liberalism: Pro & Con de Stephen Hicks en español. (English edition here: Amazon.) Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. Argumento 6: Los pobres

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Professor Hicks on Making Work Beautiful, Postmodernism, and more [In Case You Missed It]

Join Mark Michael Lewis and philosophy Professor Stephen Hicks in a conversation about an honest approach to knowledge and understanding human thriving. In this episode: Why you should always take arguments at their best [10:15] The reason why many philosophers are ‘left’ [16:00] How Objectivism is an ‘outlier’ philosophy [19:00] 3rd-generation Postmodernism and the Weaponry

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Texts in Philosophy — late Summer 2022 additions

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Bible, Genesis 17-22 on Abraham, Lot, Sarah, Isaac, Hagar, and Ishmael (c. 500s BCE). Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841). James Madison, A Memorial and Remonstrance (1785; on separating religion and state). Plato, “The Allegory of the Cave” (360 BCE) [HTML].

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