Philosophy

Friedrich Nietzsche on the philosophical legacy from Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer: “The whole great tendency of the Germans ran counter to the Enlightenment.” Source: Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak [1881], Section 197. Related: The context of Nietzsche’s provocative claim: Related: On Nietzsche’s place in the historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault […]

From Douglass’s 1848 open letter to Thomas Auld, his former master, on the tenth anniversary of his escape from slavery to freedom, which he accomplished on September 3, 1838. Sir: … When yet but a child about six years old, I imbibed the determination to run away. The very first mental effort that I now

Attributed to Paul Graham (via Philip HM Oliver). Related: How Great Artists became Great.

In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen Hicks guides us through the Enlightenment and the Counter-Enlightenment, including philosophers Francis Bacon, René Descartes, John Locke, Voltaire, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Hegel, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and Friedrich Nietzsche. Dr. Hicks establishes each philosopher’s context, presents his or her most influential arguments, and quotes

Professor Stephen Hicks‘s courses on the influential political philosophies of the modern era —Liberalism, Conservatism, Nationalism, Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Islamism, Postmodernism, and more. The syllabi: Part 1: From the French Revolution to World War II Part 2: From the Cold War to After 9/11 Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. is Professor of Philosophy and the

Mussolini & Gentile: “Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State.” And: “The Fascist conception of life is a religious one, in which man is viewed in his immanent relation to a higher law,

Rawls: We must “look for a conception of justice that nullifies the accidents of natural endowments and the contingencies of social circumstance“. About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern political philosophies from the tensions of Cold War to the turbulent post-9/11