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Albert Camus and “The Myth of Sisyphus”
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.
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God is dead
Stephen Hicks introduces the philosophy of Existentialism by means of Friedrich Nietzsche’s claim that God is dead, reflection on the rise of science and the decline of religion in the modern world, and the early-twentieth-century lived experience of world war, Depression, and the Holocaust. This is from Part 11 of his Philosophy of Education course.
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Next: Albert Camus and “The Myth of Sisyphus.”
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Placing our “isms”
Professor Hicks places several of the philosophical “isms” — Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism, and so on — on a four-dimensional array. This is from Part 6 of his Philosophy of Education course.
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Next: Why those seven: influence on contemporary education and philosophical diversity.
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Philosophy “vertically”: integrating positions into systems
Stephen Hicks here presents philosophy metaphorically “vertically,” discussing how the major philosophies compare to each other as integrated systems. This is from Part 6 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.
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Previous: Philosophy “horizontally”: metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, ethics.
Next: Placing our seven “isms.”
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