Stephen Hicks

Live Audience Application, Miami, Florida, August 2024. Professor Hicks, renowned philosopher, will be teaching a two-part course on political philosophy, outlining the key thinkers and ideas that have shaped our politics: August 21-23: Philosophy of Politics: From the French Revolution to WW II August 26-28: Philosophy of Politics: From the Cold War to After 9-11

1/3: On cities taking in migrants, many of rough and uncertain character, at high cost & safety risk to themselves. Hypothesis: Think of the priest in the powerful early scene of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables and the Broadway play and Hollywood movie. … 2/3: The priest takes in a debased and unknown-to-him Jean Valjean, recently escaped

Trailer here: “Many of you repeatedly asked us to cover Nietzsche’s thought-provoking ideas. We very lucky to have collaborated on this project with Professor Stephen Hicks — a Canadian-American philosopher, who published several texts on Nietzsche, including the book Nietzsche and the Nazis. The full description with video links here.

For years I’ve used the Borden case in my Critical Thinking course. The case became part of American folklore, generating anonymous ditties like this: Lizzie Borden took an axAnd gave her mother forty whacks,And when she saw what she had done,She gave her father forty-one. Yet she was found Not Guilty at trial. Why? I

Postmodern Philosophy A course by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Eight lectures. Key philosophers and philosophies since 1900 CE, with focus on the proponents and opponents of Postmodernism. Major thinkers covered: Bertrand Russell, John Dewey, Sigmund Freud, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Karl Popper, Thomas Kuhn, Ayn Rand, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida,