“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him” — Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in 1882. To understand what the German philosopher meant, we collaborated with Professor Stephen Hicks on this Sprouts special series. YouTube. Related: My book Nietzsche and the Nazis: print and e-book via Amazon, audiobook at YouTube. My article, “Egoism in
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“The truth is that, to many people calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which ‘we’, the clever ones, are going to impose upon ‘them’, the Lower Orders.” The Road to Wigan Pier, 1933
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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
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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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