Philosophy

¿Por Qué Los Posmodernos Entrenan—No Educan—Activistas?

¿Por Qué Los Posmodernos Entrenan—No Educan—Activistas? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. He aquí por qué adoctrinar a los niños tiene mucho sentido para los posmodernistas. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. [PDF] Para más artículos en español sobre Educación y Filosofía: https://www.stephenhicks.org/espanol/ English, original article: “Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists,” James G. Martin Center […]

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My Recommended Books lists

My lists are here: 1. Favorites in seven categories. https://www.stephenhicks.org/2019/08/11/great-books-recommended-reading/. 2. Best history of philosophy: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/03/01/best-history-of-philosophy-my-recommendation/. 3. Four books on postmodernism: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2014/09/16/four-recommended-books-on-postmodernism/. 4. My formative years: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2018/04/28/books-that-influenced-me-most-1973-1982/.

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Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics” [Atlas Intellectuals]

In this unit of our course on Objectivity we feature Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics. Rand was world-famous as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged when a collection of essays entitled The Virtue of Selfishness was published in 1964. In the opening essay, Rand presents a sustained argument for her ethic of rational self-interest. The full course on Objectivity: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/objectivity.

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Covid over-reach from paternalism to military dictatorship

Governments are properly servants of their citizens. But if you’re a politician without principles or a dictator wannabe — and it does not matter if the issue is religious belief, marijuana use, or Covid — the pattern is always the same: * First, you paternalistically order citizens to comply, rather than advising and recommending free

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Russian translation published: *Explaining Postmodernism*

RIPOL Classic Publishing (Moscow) has published a Russian-language edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Here’s an image of the final version of the cover. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible, and the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary. Information about other editions and translations is here.

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