Human Nature

Mottos and graphics

To help understand dualism, reductive materialism, and integrationism, Stephen Hicks here offers three graphics and three mottos to concretize and contrast them. This is from Part 4 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. 1 clip: Previous: Integrationism. Next: Reasons for and against dualism. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org […]

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Reasons for and against dualism

Stephen Hicks here develops several arguments for and against dualism and its competitors, reductive materialism and integrationism. This is from Part 4 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. Clips 1-6: Previous: Mottos and graphics. Next: Implications for education: The “problem child.” Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.

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Milgram’s obedience experiments

Here Stephen Hicks discusses Stanley Milgram’s fascinating (and worrisome) experiments in obedience to higher authority. This is from Part 3 of Professor Hicks’s Philosophy of Education course. 1 clip: Previous: Asch’s conformity experiments. Next: Two more virtues: independence and courage. Return to the Philosophy of Education page. Return to the StephenHicks.org main page.

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Defining modernism and pre-modernism

Intellectual systems and movements are defined philosophically by means of their characteristic claims in the five major branches of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, ethics, and politics. As historical movements, they are defined by the time of their formulation and most vigorous activity. So in the following table I offer a definitions of pre-modernism and

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