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Rousseau & Emotionalist Collectivism [Education’s Villains and Heroes course]

Third session next week In this third session of the online course “Education’s Villains and Heroes” we will discuss Rousseau’s influential philosophy of education. * Reading to prepare for this session: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on early childhood education, excerpts from Émile (1762): Books I and II. * Link to register: ZOOM. To see more of our […]

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“Ask Me Anything About Philosophy” with Stephen Hicks

Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks Wednesday, July 6 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Philosophy” event where Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on philosophy and questions from our 64K Instagram followers. Not yet on Clubhouse and interested to check it out? We’ve got you covered. Use

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Giroux on re-training teachers [Stephen Hicks’s Pope Series Lecture]

In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers

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Rousseau & Emotionalist Collectivism [Education’s Villains and Heroes course]

In this third session of the online course “Education’s Villains and Heroes” we will discuss Rousseau’s influential Emotionalist Collectivism. * Reading to prepare for this session: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on early childhood education, excerpts from Émile (1762): Books I and II. * Link to register: ZOOM To see more of our courses and related topics, visit

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Mis artículos en español (My articles in Spanish): Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas

Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada. Sin embargo, mi objetivo aquí es mostrar que las batallas politizadas por la educación no se tratan principalmente de política sino de filosofía. Las batallas políticas toman temperatura, no sólo porque es alto lo

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Mohanty on power in the classroom [Pope Lecture]

In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers

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Mis artículos en español (My articles in Spanish) La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo

“La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo.” Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. ¿Estamos luchando contra los posmodernistas con una mano atada a la espalda? Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. English version: The Spectator, Portuguese translation, and Audio version. Para más artículos en español visite el siguiente link: Stephen Hicks en español

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