Stephen Hicks

Did Keynes Save Capitalism? (Open College podcast)

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Or was he opposed to capitalism on principle? My 32-minute podcast discussion. Available at various listening sources: YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/opencollege… Bitchute http://www.bitchute.com/opencollegepo… Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/o… SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepod… Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/poss… Google Play https://play.google.com/music/m/Iuram… Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2qgnmMD…

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Either God or the State??

4 Comments / Ethics / Stephen Hicks

Read this WSJ article reporting on Attorney-General Bob Barr’s speech at the University of Notre Dame, and then ask: Are these the premises shared by both left and right? 1. People need morality. 2. Morality can come only from either Church or State. The current right then argues that the government’s doing a bad job,

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Friedrich Engels answers: Who will build the roads?

4 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

A cliché response to calls for a fully free society: But who will build the roads?!? Road networks seem an obvious case where only governments can (a) envision an infrastructure project of national scope, (b) tax millions of people to get the capital needed, and (c) compel or confiscate land from recalcitrant owners to put

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Letters from Schopenhauer’s parents

4 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Joanna and her son had a rough relationship, and both spoke their minds. From a letter she wrote to young Arthur Schopenhauer toward the end of 1807: Source is here. More letters from his parents here.

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Nietzsche’s astonishing breadth of influence

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A New Yorker article explains “Why thinkers of every political persuasion keep finding inspiration in the philosopher.” That’s a long way to come for a philosopher who in his lifetime was dismissed as a non-philosopher by the official philosophers of the day. Biographer Marianne Cowen reports that Nietzsche’s colleagues told their students not to take

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Answering the big questions: thinkspot trailer

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My purpose at thinkspot will be to tackle the big questions and engage with with my fellow thinkspot members. Here’s two minutes with me on some of the issues I’ll be addressing. The site will be launching in October, and there are currently hundreds of thousands of people on the waitlist to join the site.

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