From the left environmentalists, we get the voluntary human extinction movement. From the religious right, we get the involuntarily human death movement. Left: Right: The two are superficial enemies culturally, yet both are anti-humanist philosophically. For human beings, life is the standard of value; and for healthy humans, life is good. True lovers of humanity […]
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Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde and Maria Marty. Para más artículos en español: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/. Original version in English: “13 arguments for liberal capitalism in 13 minutes.” Also Portuguese and German translations. These quick overview arguments were later developed into my primer book Liberalism Pro and Con.
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Today I’ll be recording a three-way conversation with Engineering Politics and Return to Reason on this topic: Fear, Paternalism, and Rousseau’s Return: A Conversation with Dr. Stephen Hicks The conversation will be recorded and posted soon on CEE Video Channel at YouTube and other platforms.
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Pleased with this result: The audiobook of Nietzsche and the Nazis crossed the two million mark. Nietzsche and the Nazis started as a documentary project that was picked up by Netflix for a few years. I then turned the script into a book, which was first published in English followed by several foreign-language translations and
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In the second session from this open-to-the-public course we will be asking: Is the USA a “Capitalist” Nation? Two narratives govern our recent thinking, debating, and blame-gaming about the economy: (1) We’re a capitalist nation, so our troubles are the fault of capitalism, (2) We’re a mixed economy, and our troubles stem from the anti-capitalist
Is history determined by divine or materialist forces? Is there a pattern or end of history? Is history made by individual actors or collective efforts? My 2001 lecture, “What Moves History: An Introduction to the Philosophy of History” is now available at YouTube. The chart used in the penultimate portion of the talk:
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This unit on Socialism features Stephen Hicks’s “Your Sex Life Under Socialism.” Here’s the logic: “If human beings are the most important means of production and socialism means collective ownership of the means of production, then socialism means collective ownership of human beings. And if human beings are produced by sexual reproduction and socialism is
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The intellectual world of the 1800s and its influence upon the young Friedrich Nietzsche. A 10-minute clip from the Faulkner-Hogg interview: Nietzsche’s precociousness, the priority of biology or philosophy, evolution, the roots of ethics, cognitive subjectivism, and religion’s precariousness after Hume, Kant, Schopenhauer, and Kierkegaard. YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC-niLfhTAk Also at YouTube: This audiobook edition of
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