1. Many politicians are dictatorial bastards, and resisting them is a healthy.2. Many commentators are lying manipulators, and exposing them is a virtue.3. And yet: Facts are facts, and acting on your own informed judgment by choice is more important.
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Episode 53 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series is now out. Title: Morality without Gods?Publication Date: August 24, 2021Transcript: (Forthcoming) All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. Some transcriptions are available via my media page at thinkspot. Episodes coming soon to
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in a letter to James Boswell: “Sir, I have no liking for the world. I live here in a world of fantasies and I cannot tolerate the world as it is. … Mankind disgusts me.” On why Rousseau is now more important than Marx in explaining the substantial pathological elements in our intellectual
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One must always interpret a comprehensive philosopher’s remarks on applied matters in the context of his philosophical system. Let me give an exaggerated, fictional example to stress this point about method. Suppose one reads … Chapter One of a philosopher’s book in which one finds affirmations that individuals should seek freedom and realize their true selves
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In this week of the self-paced course on Objectivity we feature Tara Smith’s “Objective Law”. Smith (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) is professor of philosophy at the University of Texas and author of Judicial Review in an Objective Legal System (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Our Executive Summary gives eight key points from Smith’s 13-page article. The full course
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Kieran Bhattacharya was expelled from the University of Virginia medical school. A journalistic account is here. The university claims his persistent questioning at a panel discussion and his follow-up resistance to the university’s orders violated “the school’s professionalism standards.” Professionalism cuts both ways at a university — both for students and for faculty/administrators — but
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Translated into Brazilian Portuguese. Publicado pela primeira vez em Inglês: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (Scholargy, 2004). Portugués: Faro Editorial (São Paulo, 2021). Amazon Brazil. E-book. Amazon Kindle. iTunes.Resumo: O Pós-modernismo, por abordar temas que afligem o homem de hoje — como às inquietações em relação ao futuro e o colapso
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El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Para Hicks, estas escuelas de pensamiento están en constante conflicto. Por un lado, se encuentran los ídolos del sistema educativo de América Latina: Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche y Derrida. Por el otro, tenemos a Bacon, Locke, Newton, Smith,
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