My “The Deep Theory behind Stifling Speech” is now republished at Britain’s Church and State site: “The point is not that poverty and injuries are not real and serious issues to grapple with. The point is that the same tactics are at work in the Trigger strategy — the explicit use of weakness, trauma, victimhood
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Immanuel Kant said: “Everything intuited in space or time, and therefore all objects of experience possible to us, are nothing but appearances, that is, mere representations, which in the manner in which they are represented, as extended beings, or as series of alterations, have no independent existence outside our thoughts.” For more on the meaning
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My hour-long discussion with the energetic Ron Renaud: “Hang with me and super-hero philosopher Stephen Hicks talking about…” 0:00 minutes: Introduction 2:19: The evolution of socialist strategies and our culture wars 3:52: What a university should be 5:19: Rousseau, Marx, and one disaster after another 6:30: Feeling and rhetoric or logic? 7:50: Is Marxism a
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Professor Stephen Hicks’s public lecture, “Postmodernism and the Verdict of History,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 9, 2018.
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The old philosophy question — How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? — has gotten a bad rap.* Yet three important answers contest for dominance: 1. An infinite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin. As purely spiritual beings, angels do not take up physical space, so
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A bootleg version of our 2006 Nietzsche and the Nazis documentary is here. I don’t know the bootlegger, but now that the DVD is out of print I’m happy the video is available. The book version of Nietzsche and the Nazis is here.
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Jacques Derrida on the relevance of Marxism to postmodernism: “deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also *within the tradition* of a certain Marxism in a certain *spirit of Marxism*.” For more on the implications of Derrida’s writings for postmodernism, see p. 14 of
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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Cesare Bonesana, “Torture” (1764). Zora Neale Hurston, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928). Osama bin Laden, “Letter to the Americans” (2002). Michael Levin, “On Torture” (1982). Friedrich Nietzsche, “The Greek State” (1871). Charles Ogletree, “The Case for Affirmative Action” (2015). Thomas
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