Stephen Hicks

Lecture Three: The Renaissance Ideal From Aquinas to Alberti Themes: The Toledo School. Aquinas and integrating Aristotle and Christianity. The method of the Summa. Scholastics, Humanists, and Protestants (Calvin, Luther). Is it a sin to read the Bible? Tyndale and Servetus. Michelangelo, Da Vinci. Core issues: Overcoming the dualisms. God and nature. Mind and Body. […]

For my online Logic course, three books I recommend to supplement the eight lectures: 1. David Kelley and Debby Hutchins, The Art of Reasoning, Fifth edition. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2020. An excellent comprehensive, clearly written textbook. 2. H. W. B. Joseph, An Introduction to Logic, Second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press,

“I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge to make room for faith.” Lecture Six: Awakening from the Dogmatic Slumber. Immanuel Kant Themes: The sorry fate of metaphysics. Limits to reason. Phenomenal versus Noumenal realities. Saving religion and saving science? Duty ethics. Hume. Rousseau. King Frederick William II. Locke. Sulzer. Texts: Kant: Critique of

Buchanan: Public Choice theory “extends the idea of the profit motive from the economic sphere to the sphere of collective action.“ About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern political philosophies from the tensions of Cold War to the turbulent post-9/11 era.

Lecture Two: What Is Religious Education? From Plato to Augustine Themes: Plato’s Myth of the Cave and Myth of Gyges. The quarrel between Philosophy vs. Poetry. The Romans captured Greece — but the Greeks conquered Rome. Christianity institutionalized. Augustine’s rejection of pagan philosophies. Core issues: Super-naturalism. Dualities. Human inequality. Human badness. Texts: Plato, The Republic.

Mill: “The majority … may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this, as against any other abuse of power.” About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen Hicks takes us through the development of political philosophy from the late 18th to the early 20th century,

From a 2020 interview: Jennifer Grossman [43:41]: Is Cultural Marxism a real thing? Where are the greatest dangers? And how can we fight against it? Maybe you could just start with what is Cultural Marxism. Stephen Hicks: The quick-and-dirty version is that Cultural Marxism is a real phenomenon, and it is a danger. The quick genealogy is