The Atlas Society’s CEO, Jennifer Grossman, interviewed me about this year’s major events — Covid-19 and the protests/riots/looting. What is the philosophical significance of these events? Facebook. YouTube:
TASA interview: Racism, BLM, and Maintaining One’s Integrity Read More »
Juneteenth celebrates a great achievement. Slavery had existed for thousands of year in pretty much every culture in the world. But a few brave and lonely voices began to challenge it in the 1700s and within a century—almost a blink of an eye in historical time—it had been eliminated in the civilized parts of the
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Here’s my two-minute trailer for my livestream lecture series starting tomorrow, June 20: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their
Ayn Rand’s summary of Nietzsche as philosopher and as poet Read More »
Here’s the two-minute trailer for my June livestream lectures: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and
Nietzsche on “philosophers” of reason. (They’re liars.) Read More »
“Seldom are men blessed with times in which they may think what they like, and say what they think.” —Tacitus, Roman historian More at my Quotations page: https://www.stephenhicks.org/quotations/
Tacitus: Freedom is rare Read More »
Alex Murshak: “I had the pleasure of sharing mind space with Stephen Hicks (@SRCHicks) to discuss his book Explaining Postmodernism, postmodern epistemology, power, the paradox of tolerance, the objective-subjective split, Metamodernism, and more …” Audio at Soundcloud.
We’re now posting serially at thinkspot the transcripts of my Open College podcasts. Here’s the second: OC2: Violent Politics — The Lesson of Marxist Philosophy “For Marxism, the democratic process is a pointless sham.” Audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube, Bitchute, Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud. To cover additional production costs, the
Violent Politics — The Lesson of Marxist Philosophy [Open College transcript] Read More »
Two-minute trailer for my June livestream lectures: Join me in this 3-session course co-organized by thinkspot and Ayn Rand Center Latin America. * Session 1: June, Saturday 20th, 12-1 pm Central. On Altruism: Both Nietzsche and Rand are vehement opponents of altruism. Why? And in what ways are their critiques similar and different — and
Nietzsche vs. Rand on Altruism and Egoism Read More »