Audio version of my 42-page journal article “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.” Table of Contents: Part One: On Critiquing Altruism [MP3] [YouTube] [64 minutes] Three Nietzsches and Ayn RandSome Intellectuals on Nietzsche and RandEgoism, altruism, and “selfishness”A Nietzschean sketch: * God is dead * Nihilism’s symptoms * Two bio-psychological types * Psychology and morality * […]
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Re-reading E. G. West’s classic Education and the State, which plunges into the current and historical debates over private and government education. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that we grant that the government has obligation to protect children and that growing up ignorant is one of the things the government should protect children against.
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From Maynard Solomon’s Beethoven: “For Beethoven’s German and Austrian contemporaries, the Napoleonic image was especially potent: Bonaparte’s admirers included Kant, Herder, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schiller, Goethe, Hölderlin, Wielan, and Klopstock. Grillparzer, in his Autobiography wrote, ‘I myself was no less an enemy of the French than my father, and yet Napoleon fascinated me with a
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Quotations on Nazi socialism and fascism. Excerpt from Nietzsche and the Nazis.
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Imagine that this is your life story: You are born in Africa, possibly in Ethiopia or perhaps Chad, but as a child you are taken by Arab slavers and sold in Constantinople to the Sultan of Turkey, before long catching the eye of a Russian diplomat and spy, who acquires you and smuggles you out
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An interview with Jeffrey Van Davis, the director of the documentary, Only a God Can Save Us (link.) Mr. Van Davis and Professor Hicks discuss the origins of the documentary, some details about its composition, his encounters with the Heidegger family, the premiere of the documentary, and more details on the life of Heidegger. Timestamps:
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Joseph McFadden is a New York artist and writer: “Joey and Stephen discuss the purpose of art; the state of fine arts education and the art world; the relationship between art and philosophy; 20th-century art; the triad of Marx, Freud, and Darwin; the relationship between Postmodernism and Marxism, and their impact on art & culture;
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Professor Kimberly Baxter’s article summarizes Hegel’s argument that the state’s higher ethical purposes necessitate war as a means. According to Hegel, war is a “positive moment” wherein the state asserts itself as an individual and establishing its rights and interests. Sacrifice on behalf of the the state is the “substantial tie between the state and
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