A world devastated by war. Sigmund Freud asserts “Man is a wolf to man.” Martin Heidegger — rejecting the Enlightenment and everything since ancient Greek philosophy — asks: “Are we allowed to tamper with the rule of ‘logic’?” Themes: The new psychology. Pessimism. Instinct and aggression. Logic as limiting. Emotions as accessing. Nihilism? World War […]
Lecture Six: The Prussian Model From Kant to Fichte Themes: Napoleon defeats but energizes Prussia and the German states. Sulzer, Kant, and Fichte. Core issues: Duty, Obedience. Nationalism. Texts: Immanuel Kant, On Education. J.G. Fichte, Addresses to the German Nation. Watch here. About the Instructor Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., has been Professor of Philosophy
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Jennifer Grossman interviewed James Lindsay for The Atlas Society Asks: Dr. Lindsay and I were hosted by Michael O’Fallon for this pair of interviews on the roots of the culture wars:
Qutb: “Even the Western world realises that Western civilization is unable to present any healthy values for the guidance of mankind.“ About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern political philosophies from the tensions of Cold War to the turbulent post-9/11 era.
David Kelley’s The Evidence of the Senses (LSU Press, 1986) is a modern classic defense of direct realism in perception. I reviewed it for the journal Auslegung in 1989. Here is a 10-minute audio version of the review in MP3 format or at YouTube. Related: My review of Professor Tara Smith’s Cambridge University Press book
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Lecture One: At the beginning of the 20th century, both religion and philosophy seem to have reached a dead end: Bertrand Russell: philosophy’s answers “are none of them demonstrably true.” John Dewey: religions merely “steep and dye intellectual fabrics in the seething vat of emotions.” In such a pathetic state, what is the point of
Lecture Five: Spontaneous Life and Natural Feeling From Rousseau to Wordsworth Themes: Rousseau against the Enlightenment. Romanticism as anti-rational religion (Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard). Romanticism as anti-mechanical/industrial nature-worship (Wordsworth, Keats). Some Romanticism as extension of the Enlightenment (Dumas, Hugo). Core issues: Emotions. Anti-reason. Anti-determinism. Texts: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile. William Wordsworth, The World is Too Much With Us.
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Foucault: “There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations. About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern political philosophies from the