A key exchange between 3:AM Magazine and scholar Frederick Beiser, author of The Fate of Reason: German Philosophy from Kant to Fichte: 3:AM: But this is the question that German philosophers in the last decades of the eighteenth century started asking: as you put it, they asked, ‘what is the authority of reason?’ They were […]
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Stephen Hicks discusses postmodernism and its rhetorical strategy of using skepticism against modern society. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-3: Previous: Problems from Marxism. Next: Henry Giroux on education. Return to the Philosophy of Education page or the full lecture series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via
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Chapter Two of my book is now available online. This chapter traces the decline of epistemology from Kant’s “Copernican Revolution” to the dominance in the nineteenth-century of speculation and irrationalism, setting the stage for the collapse of reason in the twentieth century, which is the subject of Chapter Three.
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