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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

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Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Philosopher

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Choose your hero–Semmelweis or Abraham?

/ Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Science / By Stephen Hicks

apple-88x50Stephen Hicks here contrasts Semmelweis and Abraham as cognitive and moral role models. This is from Part 3 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course.

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Blasts from the past

  • Only religious apocalyptics and left environmentalists will dislike this
  • Pavel Jordanowitch and the Disumbrationist School of Art
  • Is Envy Worse in a Free Society? [Open College transcript]
  • Principled anti-Nazism [Section 41 of Nietzsche and the Nazis]
  • Vladimir Putin has quoted Leontiev approvingly

Sample Publications

Blasts from the past

  • Life’s purpose after AI?
  • Arday and downstream postmodernism
  • Innovation stages socially, according to Douglas Adams
  • Biggest cheating/fraud scandals of our time
  • True-believers across disparate issues

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Resources

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Resources

  • Books via Amazon
  • Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship
  • Open College Podcast

Contact

Stephen.R.C.Hicks@Gmail.com

Contact

Stephen.R.C.Hicks@Gmail.com

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Sample Publications