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Is German philosophy really Counter-Enlightenment? Nietzsche’s assessment

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My Explaining Postmodernism book is negative on the major developments in German philosophy, tracing a devolution from Kant through Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidegger to the postmodernists. Lots of room in that story for nuances and exceptions, and I’ve received much criticism for being harsh on the German thinkers. I have two forthcoming Open College […]

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Errol Morris asks, “Was Thomas Kuhn Evil?”

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Good question about a philosopher’s beliefs, character, and the connections between them. John Horgan reviews Morris’s memoir-and-critique of Kuhn’s proto-postmodernism. I discuss Kuhn’s impact on first-generation postmodernism in Explaining Postmodernism, noting first how in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Kuhn concludes that metaphysical subjective relativism is true (if we can use that word): “the proponents

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Jordan Peterson: Our Next Conversation Scheduled

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On Wednesday, March 27, I will be talking again with Dr. Peterson on his show. The conversation will be recorded for later release. Our earlier discussion in the summer of 2017 ranged over philosophy, psychology, and the history of ideas. The video is at YouTube and the transcription is at my site here. Related: My

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Texts in Philosophy — early 2019 additions

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For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. E. K. Daniel, “Two Proofs of God’s Existence” (1994). John Dewey, “The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy” (1909). Ludwig von Mises, “The Myth of the Failure of Capitalism” (1932). Ayn Rand, excerpt from John Galt’s Speech, Atlas Shrugged (1957). Walt Whitman, “Song of

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Looking Forward podcast — Institute of Public Affairs

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I talk with three scholars from the Institute of Public Affairs: Special Episode – Postmodernism with Dr Stephen Hicks What is postmodernism, and what are the goals of the postmodernist movement? On this special episode of the Looking Forward Podcast Scott Hargreaves and Dr Chris Berg are joined by Canadian philosopher Dr Stephen Hicks and

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Claire Lehmann and Adventures in Postmodernism Tour

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Claire Lehmann will be the MC for my Adventures in Postmodernism Tour event in Sydney, Australia on March 15. Ms. Lehmann is founding editor of Quillette. Here is a recent piece she published: “We Must Defend Free Thought.”

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La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo

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[A Spanish translation of my “Postmodernism’s Moral Low Ground,” which is also available in English at The Spectator, in Portuguese translation, and in a podcast version.] La Inferioridad Moral del Posmodernismo Stephen R. C. Hicks ¿Estamos luchando contra los posmodernistas con una mano atada a la espalda? Las batallas intelectuales son el elemento vital de

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Will Durant on Kant

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From Durant’s The Story of Philosophy, p. 380 (or p. 265 of this Google Books edition). THE Kantian philosophy which announced itself as “prolegomena to all future metaphysics,” was, by malicious intent, a murderous thrust at traditional modes of speculation; and, contrary to intent, a damaging blow to all metaphysics whatsoever. For metaphysics had meant,

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