Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. 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 England, and Jagiellonian […]
[Below is the text of William James’s “The Moral Equivalent of War” [pdf].] The Moral Equivalent of War By William James [Based on a speech delivered at Stanford University in 1906. Published in 1910.] The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply grounded
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Professor Piotr Kostyło of Casimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland, published a review of Nietzsche and the Nazis. The text of the review follows: Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism The forty-five years of communism in Poland (1944-1989) were marked by the government reminding society of the atrocities committed during
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To reason is to integrate perceptual evidence into concepts, propositions, and theories. So what is faith? Below are seven definitions of faith. The definitions are in my words, but they are taken from my readings of William James, Søren Kierkegaard, C. S. Lewis, George H. Smith, Basil Mitchell, R. M. Hare, and Antony Flew. If
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‘Tis the season for Christmas carols, revised for philosophical accuracy, with explanatory links, just for fun. Sigmund Freud: I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus Underneath the mistletoe last night. But with therapy I think that I Should recover and become all right. . William James: Angels we have heard while high. . . . Jean-Jacques
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Stephen Hicks discusses pragmatism as a philosophical system. This is from Part 9 of his Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-14: Previous: [Part 8: Realism] Character, discipline, and liberty. Next: John Dewey on education. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.
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