Via Edward Fox, a quotation from Paul Berman’s (recommended) Terror and Liberalism: “In the years around 1950, writers from several parts of the world set out to produce a new literature of political analysis, different from any political literature of the past, with the goal of describing and analyzing the totalitarian political passions of the […]
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. About the Professor: Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in
As the semester draws to a close for my Introduction to Philosophy course, we are discussing the meaning of life. Up today is the Myth of Sisyphyus, so below is my video-discussion of it. Here also is a PDF of some of the associated reading excerpts on what makes life meaningful — or whether it
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My video meditation on Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” below or at YouTube:
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[This column is a part of the Theist vs. Atheist debate series between Stephen Hicks and John C. Wright. Here Hicks responds to Wright’s article. And here are the links to other columns in the series.] The quest for a meaningful life comes naturally to us. As infants we delight in exploring the world and developing
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Existentialism and authentic humanism. This is from Part 11 of Stephen Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-3: Previous: Religion and science as dehumanizing. Next: Existentialism’s educational implications: General themes: choice, commitment, responsibility. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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Stephen Hicks discusses Camus’s interpretation of the Myth of Sisyphus and its implications for Existentialism. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-2: Previous: God is dead. Next: Jean-Paul Sartre and “Existence precedes essence.” Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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