33-minute lecture delivered by Dr. Stephen Hicks at the Museum of World War II, December 2022: Related: Martin Heidegger (“What Is Metaphysics?”) and Alexander Dugin (“Fascism—Borderless and Red”) in the Philosophers, Explained series.
Thus spake Friedrich: “Kant’s joke. — Kant wanted to prove, in a way that would dumbfound the whole world, that the whole world was right: that was the secret joke of this soul. He wrote against the scholars in favor of popular prejudice, but for scholars and not for the people.” Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*,
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Happy to announce the results of a new project to take Joyce’s famous Ulysses and render it safe for modern readers. The 732-page book was published in 1922 before standards of appropriate language were known and enforced. So for this centennial edition, a team of readers was commissioned to bring this historically and literarily important
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Refreshing this quotation from Zeev Sternhell’s The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale University Press, 2010), a scholarly study of the most disturbing intellectual trend of the modern world — the ongoing lineage of intellectuals opposed to the Enlightenment tradition of reason, naturalism, individualism, and freedom. Along the way Sternhell asks, of Nietzsche’s place in the trend, an
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Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy (USA) and John Anderson, former Deputy Prime Minister (Australia) discuss three philosophies that feed into Identity Politics. Excerpted from this full-hour interview. Related:
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Booker T. Washington: “From any point of view, I had rather be what I am, a member of the Negro race, than be able to claim membership with the most favoured of any other race. I have always been made sad when I have heard members of any race claiming rights and privileges, or certain
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[This excerpt is from Chapter 4 of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault] Hegel on worshipping the state While a student at Tübingen, Hegel’s favorite reading had been Rousseau. “The principle of freedom dawned on the world in Rousseau, and gave infinite strength to man.”[88] As discussed in Chapter Two, Hegel was
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The cartoon is a wry commentary on some modernist performances. Why have so many modernists and postmodernists been pre-occupied with urine and feces? If art is about expressing oneself, what kind of self are such artists expressing? Or if art is a window into the artist’s soul, what kind of souls are being exposed here?
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