Philosophy – Page 193 – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Spanish Libertarian interview on pomo, Jordan Peterson, and red-pilling SJWs

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Ignasi Boltó, a.k.a. the Spanish Libertarian, asked me eleven questions (below or at YouTube): 1. What’s your intellectual evolution? 2. Why do you say that postmodernism is the evolution of Marxism? 3. What values define Western Civilization? 4. Why does the New Left fight nihilistically against individual rights and capitalism? 5. Does philosophy matter to […]

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When Altruism becomes Pathological [Good Life series]

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Who is more likely to cheat — those who play individual sports or those who play team sports? A fascinating experiment by Professor Sharon K. Stoll and reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education compared athletes in individual sports such as golf or singles tennis with those playing teams sports such as basketball or doubles

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Immanuel Kant in Explaining Postmodernism

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Immanuel Kant said: “Everything intuited in space or time, and therefore all objects of experience possible to us, are nothing but appearances, that is, mere representations, which in the manner in which they are represented, as extended beings, or as series of alterations, have no independent existence outside our thoughts.” For more on the meaning

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Uncompromised Talk — discussion with Ron Renaud

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My hour-long discussion with the energetic Ron Renaud: “Hang with me and super-hero philosopher Stephen Hicks talking about…” 0:00 minutes: Introduction 2:19: The evolution of socialist strategies and our culture wars 3:52: What a university should be 5:19: Rousseau, Marx, and one disaster after another 6:30: Feeling and rhetoric or logic? 7:50: Is Marxism a

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My Postmodernism and the Verdict of History public lecture

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Professor Stephen Hicks’s public lecture, “Postmodernism and the Verdict of History,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 9, 2018.

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So how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

18 Comments / History, History of Philosophy, Philosophy / Stephen Hicks

The old philosophy question — How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? — has gotten a bad rap.* Yet three important answers contest for dominance: 1. An infinite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin. As purely spiritual beings, angels do not take up physical space, so

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Bootleg of Nietzsche and the Nazis

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A bootleg version of our 2006 Nietzsche and the Nazis documentary is here. I don’t know the bootlegger, but now that the DVD is out of print I’m happy the video is available. The book version of Nietzsche and the Nazis is here.

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Jacques Derrida in Explaining Postmodernism

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Jacques Derrida on the relevance of Marxism to postmodernism: “deconstruction never had meaning or interest, at least in my eyes, than as a radicalization, that is to say, also *within the tradition* of a certain Marxism in a certain *spirit of Marxism*.” For more on the implications of Derrida’s writings for postmodernism, see p. 14 of

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