Philosophy

Episode 2 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio link: iTunes Soundcloud Stitcher Topics and times: History // Three options: coincidence, unintended consequences, intended // Quoting Marx, Engels, Lenin, Dzerzhinsky, Trotsky, Hobsbawm // Environmental determinism in Marxism // Plasticity of human nature in Marxism // Economic circumstances as fundamental social-environmental forces // […]

Reposting for weekend listeners, the first episode of my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Audio links: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/open-college-podcast/id1438324613 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/opencollegepodcast/open-college-1-free-speech Topics and Times: What a meaningful life requires: [00:00 — 03:31] Far left and far right on metaphysics, human nature, and ethics [03:31 — 10:35] Walt Whitman quotation [09:28 — 10:35] Why the authoritarian left [10:35

I’ll be speaking on the theme of “Combating Authoritarianism” at this weekend’s conference. Thanks to SFL’s Cheyanne Durham and the team at The Atlas Society for making this possible.

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Ruth Benedict, excerpts from Patterns of Culture (1934) on moral relativism. Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” (1985). Sigmund Freud, “Man is a wolf to man”. Excerpt from Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). Stephen Jay Gould, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the

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