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. Watch here. About the Instructor Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., has been Professor of Philosophy […]
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Amusing. If we substitute the words “Sit, Stay, Do what we say” in the cartoon, then how close are we to much current and traditional education? Other, alternative models of education emphasize choice, movement, and exploration. Related: My eight-lecture Philosophy of Education course covering competing models of education philosophically and historically. Trailer here:
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Jennifer Grossman interviewed James Lindsay for The Atlas Society Asks: Dr. Lindsay and I were hosted by Michael O’Fallon for this pair of interviews on the roots of the culture wars:
Qutb: “Even the Western world realises that Western civilization is unable to present any healthy values for the guidance of mankind.“ About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern political philosophies from the tensions of Cold War to the turbulent post-9/11 era.
David Kelley’s The Evidence of the Senses (LSU Press, 1986) is a modern classic defense of direct realism in perception. I reviewed it for the journal Auslegung in 1989. Here is a 10-minute audio version of the review in MP3 format or at YouTube. Related: My review of Professor Tara Smith’s Cambridge University Press book
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Lecture One: At the beginning of the 20th century, both religion and philosophy seem to have reached a dead end: Bertrand Russell: philosophy’s answers “are none of them demonstrably true.” John Dewey: religions merely “steep and dye intellectual fabrics in the seething vat of emotions.” In such a pathetic state, what is the point of
Lecture Five: Spontaneous Life and Natural Feeling From Rousseau to Wordsworth Themes: Rousseau against the Enlightenment. Romanticism as anti-rational religion (Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard). Romanticism as anti-mechanical/industrial nature-worship (Wordsworth, Keats). Some Romanticism as extension of the Enlightenment (Dumas, Hugo). Core issues: Emotions. Anti-reason. Anti-determinism. Texts: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile. William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us.
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In 1974, the great Polish intellectual Leszek Kolakowski (1927-2009) published “My Correct Views on Everything, A Rejoinder to Edward Thompson’s ‘Open Letter to Leszek Kolakowski’”. Kolakowski is best known for Main Currents of Marxism, his huge survey of Marxism from its neo-Platonic and Hegelian roots through Marx and his immediate followers to the post-Russian-Revolution Marxist
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