Stephen Hicks

A course by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy. Eight lectures on our innovative business culture and the perennial challenges of entrepreneurship and leadership. What values does business pursue? What virtues of character enable successful value pursuit? How do contradictory moral theories provide conflicting advice—or demands—that require judgment about when to negotiate, when to

A partial truth, but not relevant to justifying a free society politically. Why not? A free society respects and protects freedom in many domains: religious liberty, artistic freedom, romantic liberty, economic freedom, and so on.Take the first—religious liberty—as working example, and apply JA’s criteria, saying: “You should have religious freedom because you are fallible, inconsistent,