Is history determined by divine or materialist forces? Is there a pattern or end of history? Is history made by individual actors or collective efforts? My 2001 lecture, “What Moves History: An Introduction to the Philosophy of History” is now available at YouTube. The chart used in the penultimate portion of the talk:
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The intellectual world of the 1800s and its influence upon the young Friedrich Nietzsche. A 10-minute clip from the Faulkner-Hogg interview: Nietzsche’s precociousness, the priority of biology or philosophy, evolution, the roots of ethics, cognitive subjectivism, and religion’s precariousness after Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Kierkegaard. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-niLfhTAk Also at YouTube: This audiobook edition of
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Below is a transcript of my “Conversations with Marsha” discussion, first published at YouTube: Stephen Hicks on Liberal Education: What is it and what is it good for? Marsha Enright: Good morning, and I’m happy to be here with friend and longtime Great Connections advisor Stephen Hicks. This is Marsha Enright from the Great Connections.
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I will be teaching a live, online course: The Capitalism Course. The six-session course will emphasize contemporary moral and cultural issues. When: Wednesday evenings, twice a month, beginning October 13. Where: MyJunto. Registration is free and open to anyone interested. Topics: Session 1. What Is Capitalism? Session 2: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Session
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. 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 our lives. Some accept easy
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“This excellent little volume, by an objectivist philosopher possessed of acute understanding and broad learning, asks and answers two pertinent questions: First, why have ‘postmodernist’ intellectuals of the kind you find in English departments and Women Studies programs, but not the Chemistry department, rejected Enlightenment belief in reason while embracing epistemological relativism and metaphysical nihilism
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Silicon Valley entrepreneur and MIT and Harvard graduate John Chisholm wrote this public letter. Re-posted here with permission. In the last few days, I have heard from more alumni (and non-alumni) than I can recall at any time since my term as alumni president/chair. Their reaction to the cancellation of Professor Abbot’s Carlson Lecture ranges
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A link to our full conversation during the summer of 2021. We discussed Dr. Rectenwald’s Springtime for Snowflakes, along with my Explaining Postmodernism, and this series of topics: 00:00 Intro 00:51 Is the current contemporary left Rousseauian? 03:56 Anti-reason, anti-truth movement 06:39 Postmodernism as a crisis of faith in Marxism 12:05 Herbert Marcuse & the
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