The first three sessions in my new, free, and online course will be: We will read and discuss primary sources — Plato, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in their own words. Mark your calendars. More information forthcoming.
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In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers
Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. “Postmodernism” 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 our lives. Some accept
Don’t miss this audio version Stephen Hicks’s scholarly article “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.” First published in The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies (10:2, Spring 2009), pp. 249-91. Related: Nietzsche and the Nazis.
Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand [In Case You Missed It] Read More »
A prominent Cyrenaic named Hegesias, author of a book called *Death by Starvation*, lectured in Alexandria. He taught the doctrine of withdrawing from a malevolent world. The only way to avoid pain is suppress and/or rid oneself of desire. The goal of life is to pain avoidance—to the point that death is preferable to life.
When Hegesias the Cyrenaic was “cancelled” in Alexandria Read More »
On the connections between philosophy and politicizing education: “Kant’s philosophic successors, Fichte and Hegel, elaborated the idea that the chief function of the state is educational; that in particular the regeneration of Germany is to be accomplished by an education carried on in the interests of the state, and that the private individual is of
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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.
Sample insults by philosophers that are true to their style: Heraclitus: “Why don’t you just flux off.” Aristotle: “All men by nature desire to know — just not about you.” Schopenhauer: “Your mind — so narrow that even the will to nothingness can’t find an opening.” Plato: “All in all, you’re just another shadow on
Philosophers’ Insults Read More »