How did the ideas of liberty prevail in the modern world? What stands behind humanity’s enormous progress in very recent centuries? Stephen Hicks answered these questions at an international conference hosted by ARCE. Related: Professor Hicks’s book on the anti-Enlightenment origins of Postmodernism, Wokism, and Cancel Culture.
Love and Hate in Uncertain Times [Stephen Hicks lecture in Belgrade, Serbia] Read More »
At the beginning of Crito, Socrates is in prison awaiting execution, having been found guilty of impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. His good friend Crito arrives, having worked out an escape opportunity for Socrates. Crito rushes through a few reasons why Socrates should escape immediately. Socrates then suggests that the issue is more
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian
Allegory of the Cave | The Republic | Plato | Philosophers, Explained by Stephen Hicks Read More »
I will be in London, England, next week to do a live, studio debate with Professor James Orr: I will argue for Liberalism and Professor Orr will argue for Conservatism. James Orr is on the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University (UK). He also headed up the National Conservatism conference held in Westminster, London, May
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How academic theory becomes university classroom becomes schooling becomes culture: “What do these hateful ideologues do after obtaining their diplomas? To find out, we searched for the career histories of a sample of 300 former campus radicals identified by Canary Mission. More than a quarter of them are in higher education, either as graduate instructors
What careers do campus activists pursue? Read More »
How many times do key normative words appear in the King James version of the Bible? The above list is only partial and a discussion starter. Sample word counts via King James Bible Online: Source: https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Popular-Bible-Words.php
Bible word count: “Fear,” “Obey,” “Love,” etc. Read More »
I had a happy realization that I’ve done four live public debates and each was on a different continent. Australia (Brisbane) 2020: Topic: Is Postmodernism Right-Wing or Left-Wing? Europe (Belgrade) 2023: Topic: Open or Closed Objectivism? North America (New York) 2019: Do Free Societies Need Postmodernism? South America (Buenos Aires) 2018: Morality of Capitalism vs.
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Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential philosopher of the past 240 years. Yet the essayist Heinrich Heine made this claim about Immanuel Kant’s philosophy: “Immanuel Kant, the arch-destroyer in the realm of thought, far surpassed in terrorism Maximilian Robespierre.” Harsh language, and it goes against a standard interpretation of Kant as the savior of
Why did Heine say Kant is an intellectual “terrorist”? Read More »