Lecture Six: The Prussian Model
From Kant to Fichte
Themes: Napoleon defeats but energizes Prussia and the German states. Sulzer, Kant, and Fichte. Core issues: Duty, Obedience. Nationalism.
Texts: Immanuel Kant, On Education. J.G. Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation.
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About the Instructor
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., has been Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, Illinois; Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; Visiting Professor at the University of Kasimir the Great, Poland; Visiting Fellow at Harris Manchester College of Oxford University; and Visiting Professor at the Jagiellonian University, Poland.
In 2010, he won his university’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
Dr. Hicks is author of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, Nietzsche and the Nazis, Entrepreneurial Living, Liberalism Pro and Con, and Eight Philosophies of Education. He has published in Business Ethics Quarterly, Review of Metaphysics, Teaching Philosophy, and The Wall Street Journal. His writings have been translated into twenty languages.
The Philosophy of Education course trailer and enrollment options at the Peterson Academy site. Professor Hicks’s other courses — Modern Philosophy, Postmodern Philosophy, Philosophy of Ethics, Philosophy of Education, Philosophy of Politics: From the French Revolution to World War II, and Philosophy of Politics: From the Cold War to After 9/11 are also available. Two more courses — Metaphysics and Epistemology and Introduction to Logic — are coming soon to Peterson Academy.