From the left environmentalists, we get the voluntary human extinction movement. From the religious right, we get the involuntarily human death movement. Left: Right: The two are superficial enemies culturally, yet both are anti-humanist philosophically. For human beings, life is the standard of value; and for healthy humans, life is good. True lovers of humanity […]
Death advocates, Left and Right versions Read More »
On November 17, K. Mikey M and I will be presenting an open-to-the-public seminar: “Courage, perseverance, and embracing risk are key to innovation and entrepreneurial success. But where do those traits come from? We’re all works in progress, and this session focuses on how we cultivate the entrepreneurial mind-set and action-set in ourselves.” Hosted by the
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Today I’ll be recording a three-way conversation with Engineering Politics and Return to Reason on this topic: Fear, Paternalism, and Rousseau’s Return: A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Hicks The conversation will be recorded and posted soon on CEE Video Channel at YouTube and other platforms.
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Pleased with this result: The audiobook of Nietzsche and the Nazis crossed the two million mark. Nietzsche and the Nazis started as a documentary project that was picked up by Netflix for a few years. I then turned the script into a book, which was first published in English followed by several foreign-language translations and
Very cool: My first 2-million-views video at YouTube Read More »
From a private correspondence: Quite frankly the “elite schools” are producing a raft of useless employees. These graduates come from an environment where dissent and opposing views are not only crushed, the person who expresses them becomes a pariah. I serve on the board of directors of an executive recruiting firm with a 40-year history.
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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
The youthful Nietzsche’s intellectual context Read More »
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.
Liberal Education: What Is It and What Is It Good For? Read More »