Los cuatro errores del papa Francisco sobre el liberalismo El papa Francisco nos ha dado varios indicios de su posición acerca del liberalismo, pero su negatividad es cada vez más evidente. En su mensaje a la Sesión Plenaria de la Pontificia Academia de Ciencias Sociales, las críticas fueron directas y, a veces, crudas. Si bien el Pontífice tuvo algunos […]
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Excerpt from Professor Raymond Tallis’s review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures: Postmodern Philosophers’ Abuse of Science (London: Profile Books, 1998). Also translated as Fashionable Nonsense. “Eventually the postmodern Theorists started to attract the attention of experts in the disciplines into which they had strayed. Linguists looked at their linguistics and found it littered
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We’re posting serially the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the 18th. My second discussion with Professor Peterson ranges over postmodernism, language, power, and what makes for a genuine education. Open College podcast published a 40-minute audio excerpt of the discussion; the full video discussion is available at Dr. Peterson’s site. Here is a
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Here’s a link to my panel discussion on Critical Race Theory and Pipeline Cyber-Threats and Politics. Vickie Oddino hosted me and economist Richard Salsman. I contrast individualist anti-racism to the new Postmodern- and Critical-Theory-derived strategies. Along the way I discuss these three revealing descriptions of (1) postmodern anti-individualism, (2) the structural part of “structural racism”,
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al español por Fermín Elizalde. Artículo original en inglés y Kindle. Introducción: los negocios y la sociedad libre Los defensores de la sociedad libre piensan en los negocios como una parte integral de la sociedad dinámica y progresista que defienden. En Occidente, el surgimiento de una cultura hospitalaria para los
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Sebastian Lenk is a smart student in Germany, and he invited me to this conversation at his new podcast series, available on a variety of platforms via this link at his site. “I invite Stephen Hicks for a thought-provoking discussion on the post-enlightenment evolution of philosophy.“
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Critical Race Theory and Medical Education Stephen R. C. Hicks, Department of Philosophy, Rockford University, Illinois, USA 61108 [Invited comment on J. Tsai, “Building Structural Empathy to Marshal Critical Education into Compassionate Praxis: Evaluation of a Peer-Led Critical Race Theory Course,” for Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, Special Issue on “Race and Ethnicity in
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“This is not a book review but a flat-out endorsement. Stephen R. C. Hicks’s Explaining Postmodernism is a great but very scary read.”
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Meanwhile, the cost of (unsubsidized) goods has gone down.
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Stephen R. C. Hicks Traducido al Español por Fermín Elizalde. (El artículo original en inglés. Original English: Why Philosophy Begins with Thales.) La afirmación estándar es que la filosofía comienza con Thales. Cuando les enseño esto a mis alumnos, es difícil de vender, porque aquí están los textos fundadores de la filosofía, que Aristóteles atribuye
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