Philosophy

Morality without Gods? [Open College podcast]

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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When A seems to mean not-A, context matters

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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Tara Smith, “Objective Law” [Atlas Intellectuals]

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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Bhattacharya’s expulsion from university, and slippery-slope parallels

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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Explicando o Pós-modernismo: Ceticismo e socialismo — de Rousseau a Foucault 

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

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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