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Polish translation of “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?”

[The following is a translation into Polish of my “Is Republishing Hitler’s *Mein Kampf* the Correct Decision?” Thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for making this translation possible.] Czy ponowna publikacja książki Adolfa Hitlera Mein Kampf jest słuszną decyzją? Po długich dekadach obowiązywania zakazu, niemieckie władze wyrażają zgodę na ponowną publikację książki Adolfa Hitlera Mein Kampf.

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Be a Maker

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Make up your mind. Make a move. Make something. Make a deal. Make a career. Make a home. Make love. Make a family. Make a life.

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Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism [Explaining Postmodernism]

2 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

Chart 1.3: Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Post-modernism Pre-modernism Modernism Post-modernism Metaphysics Realism: Super-naturalism Realism: Naturalism Anti-realism Epistemology Mysticism and/or faith Objectivism: Experience and reason Social subjectivism Human Nature Original Sin; Subject to God’s will Tabula rasa and autonomy Social construction and conflict Ethics Collectivism: altruism Individualism Collectivism: egalitarianism Politics & Economics Feudalism Liberal

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Marx as proto-postmodernist — revealing quotation

4 Comments / Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

On the beautiful usefulness of dialectic, as Marx expressed in a letter to Engels about a predictive claim he’d made: “It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to

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Upcoming talk at Lafayette College, Pennsylvania

2 Comments / News / Stephen Hicks

I’ll be speaking on “Postmodernism: Philosophy and Politics” as part of The Mill Series of lectures at Lafayette College. The series is named for John Stuart Mill, whose On Liberty, especially its second chapter, is essential reading for free speech and liberal education advocates (and their opponents): “He who knows only his own side of

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Professor Mehta’s firing: four quick hypotheses

2 Comments / Free Speech and Censorship / Stephen Hicks

Acadia University fired a tenured professor. Still not much hard information to go on. But from the public documents, those of us to don’t know the professor or the university atmosphere personally can glean four hypotheses. He was fired because: 1. His positions are ideologically wrong, according to his campus enemies. 2. His manner of

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Don’t Tread on Anyone — Keith Knight’s interview with me

Leave a Comment / Economics, Politics / Stephen Hicks

At the Voluntaryist site, Keith Knight asked me seven questions: 1. What is liberal capitalism, and why is it a moral system? 2. What about the poor? What about bleeding-heart libertarianism, and why should poor people favor liberal capitalism? 3. What is wealth, and how can we accurately measure it? 4. What is the Frankfurt

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Crypto on Peterson and Hicks on Pomo and Neo-Marxism

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A very good three-part essay by Crypto on (1) Postmodernism, (2) Neo-Marxism, and (3) their intersection. I don’t know who the authors are, but I appreciate their clear and concise summary. Their statement of purpose in writing the essay: “this essay was not written with the intention of expressing agreement or disagreement with Peterson’s conceptualisation

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