Philosophy

1. The young Friedrich Schiller wrote The Robbers (1781), a play that made him an overnight sensation. To deepen his education, he plunged into Kantian philosophy. As a result: His imagination, he feared, had abandoned him. Philosophical enquiries into Immanuel Kant’s philosophy had somehow eradicated his poetic sensibilities, and he felt that he was neither […]

One-minute introduction to the series: Full Series playlist. Philosophers in the first series: Immanuel Kant Plato Galileo Galilei Ayn Rand Jean-Jacques Rousseau René Descartes Jean-Paul Sartre Socrates Martin Heidegger Thomas Aquinas Arachne and Athena Aristotle Albert Camus Friedrich Nietzsche John Dewey Sigmund Freud G.W.F. Hegel William James Søren Kierkegaard John Locke Karl Marx John Stuart

I read the book in manuscript and wrote this blurb for it: “Max Reynolds’ eye for the telling details works well with his strategic judgment in tracing ideological evolutions—from their roots in Hegel and Marx—to their 20th- and 21st-century transmutations. Read this book to understand our current cultural battles.”—Stephen R.C. Hicks, Professor of Philosophy, author

Will Knowland, in our interview, asked my how I became interesting in philosophy. Other excerpts: How Education Became Indoctrination:  On Power: Related:

On Sunday I will be in Morrison, Illinois, for this open-to-the public talk. Press release: Dr. Stephen Hicks is Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship at Rockford University in Rockford, IL. He is the author of six books that have been translated into 20 languages: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism

No, but he predicted the psychological type. Here’s Orwell on a large subset of Socialists in the early 20th century: “Sometimes, when I listen to these people talking, and still more when I read their books, I get the impression that, to them, the whole Socialist movement is no more than a kind of exciting

“Poważne teorie ukryte za tłumieniem wolności słowa1” (PDF) is published in the journal Filozofia Edukacji. The original article in English. Thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for making the Polish publication possible. A few years ago my “Educating for Entrepreneurship” was published in Polish in the education journal Przegląd Pedagogiczny. The Polish title of the article

Earlier this month in California I participated in this discussion with Robert Tracinski and Jennifer Grossman: * Why the polarized techno-optimism versus techno-pessimism? * What transformative technologies — e.g., artificial intelligences and robotics — are in the offing? * What is the role for good philosophy, e.g., Objectivism, in making and managing transformative technologies? Related: