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Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his early The Birth of Tragedy: “the subject—the striving individual bent on furthering his egoistic purposes—can be thought of only as the enemy of art, never its source.” Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand”
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A few elements from the 1932 Platform of the Democratic Party. Overall the document calls for much expansion of government, but also these: * An immediate and drastic reduction of governmental expenditures by abolishing useless commissions and offices, consolidating departments and bureaus and eliminating extravagance, to accomplish a saving of not less than 25% in
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Explicando el Posmodernismo, la crisis del socialismo Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Traducido al Español por Barbarroja Ediciones, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014. English. Via Amazon España.
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,
Stephen Hicks with TAS CEO Jennifer Grossman and artist Michael Newberry. Newberry is a neo-romanticist painter based in Idyllwild, California. He blends a variety of influences, notably Rembrandt and the French Impressionists, and is the author of the outstanding new book Evolution Through Art. Related: Professor Hicks’s classic essay, “Why Art Became Ugly.” And this
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¿Por Qué Los Posmodernos Entrenan—No Educan—Activistas? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. He aquí por qué adoctrinar a los niños tiene mucho sentido para los posmodernistas. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. PDF English: “Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists,” James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, March 2019. Audio version. Portuguese Translation.
“La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo.” Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Estamos luchando contra los posmodernistas con una mano atada a la espalda? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde. English version (The Spectator), Portuguese translation, and audio version.
Cuando el Altruismo se vuelve patológico Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Quién es más propenso a engañar? ¿Aquellos que practican deportes individuales o aquellos que practican deportes en equipo? Traducido al Español por María Marty, 2016. English: “When Altruism Becomes Pathological”.
For those who would like an introductory overview of my work, here are eight articles selected for range: Friedrich Nietzsche, Postmodernism, Entrepreneurism, Liberal Education, Immanuel Kant, Objectivity, Ayn Rand, Modern Art, Jordan Peterson, Religion, and Ethics. “The Postmodern Critique of Liberal Education.” Reason Papers 41:1 (Winter 2019): 60-89. “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.” The Journal
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