Episode 50 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Many rejections of objectivity assume from the outset an impossible standard for humans to achieve. Don’t do that. All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. Some transcriptions are available via my media page
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Young Karl Marx, full of Sturm und Drang and apocalyptic fervor, wrote poetry expressing his strongest desires. Two excerpts, the first from Feelings (1836): “Worlds I would destroy for ever, Since I can create no world, Since my call they notice never, Coursing dumb in magic whirl.” And the second from The Fiddler (1837): “I
Seven items, First, in 1776, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence: “He [the King of England] has waged a cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in
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Last year, philosopher Marc Champagne published the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and contributed a blurb for it: “Philosopher Marc Champagne’s analytic skills are impressively on display as he presents and variously dissects, agrees with, and critiques Jordan Peterson’s hugely ambitious project to integrate modern science with
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At the Headway Channel: A conversation with Professor Stephen Hicks on Postmodernism. Conducted by Brian Berneker.
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“Structural” is a technical term in this literature, and when claimants of “structural racism” and “critical race theory” use it be aware that they are not allies of the anti-racism of the Martin Luther King judge-individuals-by-the-content-of-their-character variety. What they mean by racism is something profoundly different. Three quotations on what they mean by structural: From
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Four-minute excerpt here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbeCQis1kh7fEaOGPhG96SA. Why is everyone talking about postmodernism? In the 1990s, could one predict the “culture war” of the 2010s? Full interview topics covered: How I first came to read Rand, predicting postmodernism, connecting psychology to philosophy, from abstractions to particulars and putting the measurements back in, dealing with subverters, character and getting
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