“Kids these days!”
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Third and final lecture in my “What Is Religion?” mini-course at thinkspot
My mini-course on religion — now running at thinkspot — wraps up on Wednesday evening at 7:30 Central Time. I will cover the major and varied moral and social dimensions of religions and conclude with my definition of religion. Our governing question for this three-lecture course is: What Is Religion? We set aside the questions
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Rizzo on Paternalism and Economics
Professor Mario Rizzo presents his new book Escaping Paternalism (Cambridge University Press, 2020). The book is co-authored with Glen Whitman. I love the cover image. Rizzo is a professor in the Economics Department at New York University and a deep-thinking scholar. Here’s his one-hour lecture at Brown University on the book’s themes:
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My new book: *Liberalism Pro & Con* …
… will be published in March by Connor Court Publishing. Liberalism: Pro & Con By Stephen R.C. Hicks Foreword by Parnell Palme McGuinness Paperback, 110 pages, ISBN: 9781925826821 [Stephen Hicks Australian Tour Release: March 2020.] Why take up the strongest arguments? In this primer, our method starts by taking up the best arguments for and
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Culture Wars and the Meaning(s) of Life — An Evening in Melbourne, Australia
CULTURE WARS 2.0: How Political Correctness is Shaping Your World Thursday 12th March 2020, 6-8 pm. Tickets available via Eventbrite.
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Champagne’s new book on Jordan Peterson’s ideas
Philosopher Marc Champagne has published what I believe to be the first scholarly work on Jordan Peterson’s overall worldview. I read the book in manuscript and liked it and contributed a back-cover 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
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Texts in Philosophy — early 2020 additions
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. General Friedrich von Bernhardi, excerpts from Germany and the Next War (1911). C. S. Lewis. “Social Morality”, Book 3, Chapter 3 of Mere Christianity (1952). [On Christian ethics, leftism, socialism, money, and the charging of interest.] George Orwell, “Review of The Totalitarian Enemy
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Ad-Dajjal reviews *Nietzsche and the Nazis*
Al-Masih Ad-Dajjal published his extended review of my Nietzsche and the Nazis in December 2019. I like this part: “His writing talent is praiseworthy: clarity, historical competency, willingness to engage opponents with charity. There are occasions throughout the listening of his audiobook where one is moved by way of his descriptions of Nietzschean philosophy, a
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