Philosophy

In 1959, Leo Strauss said: “the only great thinker in our time is Heidegger.” The full, disturbing context for that statement: “All rational liberal philosophic positions have lost their significance and power. One may deplore this, but I for one cannot bring myself to clinging to philosophical positions which have been shown to be inadequate. […]

Times for the main sections of Jeffrey Van Davis’s documentary on Martin Heidegger’s life and thought: 01:41 Memorial and recollections 07:00 Messkirch 10:55 Early life 14:04 World War I 23:12 Being and Time 36:10 The Rectorship 45:37 Kristallnacht 51:55 Edith Stein 56:18 Hiding from the French 1:01:26 Denazification 1:11:23 Hannah Arendt 1:13:38 Paul Celan 1:19:00

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Derrick Bell, “Racial Realism,” Connecticut Law Review 24:2 (1992). Auguste Comte, Catechism of Positive Religion, Conversations I-V, (1852) John Locke, Book 4 of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690). Karl Popper, “Science: Conjectures and Refutations” (1962). Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality

Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy (USA) and John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister (Australia) discuss what the National Socialists of Germany adapted, controversially, from the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Related: Professor Hicks’s full book treatment of the topic:

In this introductory volume, Professor Stephen R. C. Hicks makes the essential arguments for and against liberalism. Each argument is supported by quotations from the major thinkers—including Locke, Nietzsche, Plato, Hayek, de Maistre, Rand, Marx, and others—who have advanced or attacked liberalism. The Pro-Liberal claims: Liberalism increases freedom | People work harder in liberal societies |