Open College launched: “Free Speech: Why the *Philosophy* Matters”

Reposting for weekend listeners, the first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series.

Audio links:

• iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613
• Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech

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 development of modern liberal education [14:46 — 25:26]
    • Galileo Galilei on truth and reason [15:34 — 19:05]
    • Francis Bacon and the need to train our own minds [19:05 — 20:58]
    • John Locke and the need for tolerance [20:58 — 22:07]
    • John Stuart Mill and the value of debate [22:07 — 23:58]
  • Advertisement: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault [25:26 — 27:23]
  • Free Speech *Is* Free Thought *Is* Free Action [27:23 — 41:57]
    • Language and cognition [27:23 — 29:16]
    • On the individuality of cognition [29:16 — 33:44]
    • On speech-and-action needs of cognition [33:44 — 39:47]
    • Advertisement: Adventures in Postmodernism tour in Australia [39:47 — 41:20]
  •  The responsibility of teachers, professors, and parents [41:57 — 45:19]
•  What happens when free speech suppressed [45:19 — 50:49]
• Outro: [50:49 — 52:14]

Total: 52:14.

Transcription and sources: Forthcoming.

Related:

• Free Speech and Postmodernism Kindle version
• “Hitler and the Death of Free Speech”
• “The Deep Theory Behind Stifling Speech”
• “Campus Power Politics — It’s Calculated Strategy”
• Philosophy of Education Course

The complete series of Open College with Stephen Hicks podcasts.