Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 7: El poder es […]
Stephen Hicks will travel to Utah State University on Thursday, April 6th at 7:00 PM Mountain Time to speak at an open event hosted by the university’s Turning Point USA Chapter. He’ll speak on Good Woke, Bad Woke (Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress). If you’re local to the area and want to join Dr. Hicks, you
Mostly with students in mind — who often have limited budgets — we produced this free online edition of Explaining Postmodernism. I’m happy to see that it has passed the 200,000 views mark. Related: My *Philosophers, Explained* series, launched in late 2022:
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My Liberalism: Pro and Con has been translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde. We will be serially publishing here each part prior to the publication of the book as a whole. Find the English version here: Amazon. From the blurb for the English edition: In this primer, we take up the best arguments for and
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Is philosophy pointless? With Carter Loren of Unsafe Spaces, Stephen Hicks takes up those and other questions. Related: Professor Hicks’s Philosophers, Explained series on the great thinkers and classic texts.
Do we have an innate need to believe in something bigger than ourselves? Read More »
Earlier I asked this question: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don’t materialize? I’m not a climate-change expert. Yet I’m an intelligent man who’s read the news for about 40 years. I’ve seen this headline in various publications about once a week—i.e., about 2,000 times. So the question: How should a layperson
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“In broad outlines, ancient, feudal, and modern bourgeois modes of production can be designated as progressive epochs in the economic formation of society.” Karl Marx, preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. Emphasis added. For fuller explanation: My close reading of Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto:
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Traditional sex roles have it that the woman looks after the family hearth, tending the cooking and raising the children, while the man goes off to hunt and fight. Many explanations can be offered for these assigned roles, but to my knowledge Sigmund Freud has the most, uummmm, interesting explanation for why men are not
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