Human Nature

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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