Relevant for: Politics is downstream from culture, Where innovation happens, Where the Enlightenment did and didn’t take hold, and more. Source. Related: The Enlightenment Vision flowchart.
World Cultural Map charting traditional/secular and survival/self-expression values Read More »
One hundred years ago, Hilaire Belloc published The Servile State, with this provocative claim about his mixed intellectual world: “the effect of Socialist doctrine on Capitalist society is to produce a third thing different from either of its two begetters — to wit, the Servile State.” The nineteenth century was largely capitalist in theory and
The servile state — Belloc’s 1913 prediction Read More »
Updated for the new year: My collected posts on key thinkers from Homer, Socrates, and Augustine to Descartes, Kant, and Rand. Related: My Philosophers, Explained series.
Intellectual History page updated Read More »
“We have a panel discussion with Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy, on the impacts of GenAI on the human condition.”
Interviewed by Israel’s Harry Kaufmann: Related interview: “Rand, Kant, Israel v. Islamists, & Career integrity”—Stephen Hicks with Vinay Kolhatkar and Roger Bissell.
A common trope is that art and science are opposed to each other. That, despite the long list of artistic innovators—from Leonardo, Michelangelo, Monet, and others—who self-consciously applied science and the fruits of technical engineering to make their independent visions real. Leonardo and mathematics, Michelangelo and anatomy, Monet and the chemical industry’s new pigments, and
Rock band Boston’s music: on the integration of science, engineering, and art Read More »
Kant is “rightly regarded as the founder of modern aesthetics.” That is Harold Osborne, longtime editor of the scholarly British Journal of Aesthetics. Osborne further claims that Kant’s “theory is the most important anticipation of the modern aesthetic outlook in any philosopher before the twentieth century”. While it’s initially shocking to think that the priggish and
Why did the editor of *British Journal of Aesthetics* say Kant is key to Modernist Art? Read More »
When little Sigmund saw his mother kissing Santa Claus: “I saw Mommy kissing Santa ClausUnderneath the mistletoe last night.It surely was a dream,I thought, brought on by curdled cream.Now therapy is called forPsy-cho-a-nal-y-ti-cly. (With apologies to the Jackson Five.) Related: My annually reposted “Scrooge’s Hero’s Journey.”
Now is the winter of our content — but not for these philosophers Read More »