Confession: I myself failed to notice the Village People’s violence, but the censors must know better. Apparently this list was circulated among the Communist Party’s higher-ups just before the Perestroika era.
Now amusing: Music to be banned from Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Read More »
Dietrich was a Ph.D. in Political Science from Freiburg University (where later Martin Heidegger was professor of philosophy). In a 1934 lecture delivered at the University of Köln, Dietrich bases National Socialist political philosophy directly upon the philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. A key theme of the lecture is Universalism versus Individualism, where individualism
Dr. Otto Dietrich, Hitler’s National Press Director [on Kant] Read More »
15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Other lectures in the series forthcoming: Part Two: Metaphysics: Reality and Education Part Three: Epistemology: Knowledge and Education Part Four: Human Nature and Education Part Five: Ethics: Values and Education Part Six: Integrated
Education Theory 1: What Is *Philosophy* of Education? Read More »
Happily, my lecture at the University of British Columbia, Canada, now has over 330,000 views. It now also has the option of subtitles in English and Portuguese. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGbHG63x8w
UBC postmodernism lecture — now with subtitles Read More »
This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Virtue: knowledge? character? disposition? habit? action? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact
What Is Virtue? | Philosophy for Real Life (9 of 22) | Stephen Hicks Read More »
Calls for “Government-Business cooperation” to run the economy should be seen as skeptically as calls for “Government-Sex Clinic cooperation” to run our bedroom lives. Related: “From the Office of the Reproducer-General.“
Government and Sex // Government and Business Read More »
Opening line of a 1758 essay by David Hume: “Nothing appears more surprizing to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers.” (“Of the
Hume on submission to rulers Read More »