Nobody should own another human being, yet parent have basic decision rights and responsibilities for their children. That view has long been challenged by philosophers and politicians of authoritarian bent. Circa 1000 BCE. Spartan lawgiver Lycurgus’s policy: “children were not so much the property of their parents as of the whole commonwealth, and, therefore, would […]
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Renaissance historian Boris von Brauchitsch writes: “Whereas 45 scribes had once required 22 months to copy 200 books for Cosimo de’ Medici, the two German priests who set up Italy’s first printing press in the Benedictine cloister of Subiaco in 1465 were able to turn out 12,000 volumes in only five years.” (Brauchitsch, Boris von.
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Confession: I myself failed to notice the Village People’s violence, but the censors must know better. Apparently this list was circulated among the Communist Party’s higher-ups just before the Perestroika era.
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Dietrich was a Ph.D. in Political Science from Freiburg University (where later Martin Heidegger was professor of philosophy). In a 1934 lecture delivered at the University of Köln, Dietrich bases National Socialist political philosophy directly upon the philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. A key theme of the lecture is Universalism versus Individualism, where individualism
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15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part One: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Other lectures in the series forthcoming: Part Two: Metaphysics: Reality and Education Part Three: Epistemology: Knowledge and Education Part Four: Human Nature and Education Part Five: Ethics: Values and Education Part Six: Integrated
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Happily, my lecture at the University of British Columbia, Canada, now has over 330,000 views. It now also has the option of subtitles in English and Portuguese. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BGbHG63x8w
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This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters
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Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Virtue: knowledge? character? disposition? habit? action? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact
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