Australia’s True Arrow entrepreneur Sam McClelland did this fun video short, integrating commentary on the Covid lockdowns, the backlash protests, and an excerpt from my lectures on Plato and postmodernism. Enjoy. Related: Plato on Education, from my Philosophy of Education course online.
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I’ll be live today with Carter at the Unsafe Spaces conversation. 7 pm Central. Topics: The scary “isms”: Wokism, Postmodernism, Critical Theory conspiratorialism, and more.
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His real name was William Joyce, and he broadcasted National Socialist propaganda to an English audience. In Berlin during in the early years of World War Two, the American correspondent William Shirer met Haw-Haw and said this of him: “I should say that he has two complexes which have landed him in his present notorious
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. The important values in life — friendship, art, careers, forming a philosophy of life — are those primarily individual or collective? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in
Is Individualism Important? | Philosophy for Real Life (13 of 22) | Stephen Hicks Read More »
Our topic was the many intellectuals who supported National Socialism — Heidegger, Schmitt, Dietrich — along with the other psychological and cultural factors that explained the enormous popularity and enthusiasm for the Nazis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Follow-up question: What are the parallels to today’s facist/antifa activists? Our first conversation, on postmodernism
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In my Introduction to Philosophy course this semester, we read: PlatoJohn LockeImmanuel KantJohn DeweyB. F. SkinnerAlbert CamusJean-Paul SartreAyn RandMaria MontessoriKarl MarxMichel FoucaultHenry Giroux Diverse enough?
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About whom was this written, and when? “There was an unbelievable degree of intellectual homogeneity, of acceptance of a standard set of views complete with cliché answers to every objection, of smug self-satisfaction at belonging to an in-group. … They had cliché answers but only to their self-created straw-men. To exaggerate only slightly, they had
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. How does one define liberty? 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 on
What Is Liberty? | Philosophy for Real Life (12 of 22) | Stephen Hicks Read More »