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Human nature: mind/body integration, volition, reason and emotion, tabula rasa morally

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Stephen Hicks discusses Ayn Rand’s theory of human nature. This is from Part 12 of his Philosophy of Education course. Previous: Francis Bacon’s “Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed” Next: Individualism: self-responsible living and the virtues Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.

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Defining modernism and pre-modernism

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Intellectual systems and movements are defined philosophically by means of their characteristic claims in the five major branches of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, ethics, and politics. As historical movements, they are defined by the time of their formulation and most vigorous activity. So in the following table I offer a definitions of pre-modernism and

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