Join us on this “Ask Me Anything about Ethics” event. Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks Wednesday, April 6 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Ethics” event where Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on ethics and questions from our 63K Instagram followers. Not yet on Clubhouse, and […]
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With Stephen Hicks, Ph.D The fourth session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Next Generation Socialism?” Link to register for the session at Kazm. Reading in preparation for the session: Robert Heilbroner, “Socialism” (1993). And for the ambitious, Heilbroner’s earlier “What Is Socialism?”, Dissent Magazine (1978). You can also check out the first three sessions at Kazm.
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From 2006, an eight-minute documentary clip with my answer. Topics covered: (1) National Socialist philosophy, (2) the Nazi Party’s original 25-point platform — collectivism, economic socialism, nationalism, authoritarianism — (3) negotiations to merge with the German Socialist Party, (4) Hitler and Goebbels speeches on socialism, and (5) the symbolism of the swastika. From 2006, an
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A good, short essay by classicist James Romm, “What Would Socrates Do?” on philosophers who have had integrity and those who have not.
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¿Por Qué Los Posmodernos Entrenan—No Educan—Activistas? Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. He aquí por qué adoctrinar a los niños tiene mucho sentido para los posmodernistas. Traducido al Español por Fermin Elizalde, 2019. PDF English: “Why Postmoderns Train—Not Educate—Activists,” James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal, March 2019. Audio version. Portuguese Translation.
Each a full-lecture explanation of the philosophy in general and its applications to curriculum, selection of teachers, methods of instruction, assessment, and school design. The six are: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Behaviorism, Existentialism, and Objectivism. Two more forthcoming: Marxism, Postmodernism. Related: The full course.
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I will be speaking (in English!) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, on April 10.
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Sandra Woien, Ph.D., a philosopher at Arizona State University, has put together this fine volume of eighteen essays on Peterson’s thinking. Michael Shellenberger wrote the foreword. I have an essay in the book on Peterson’s pragmatic approach to religion. Here is the Table of Contents: Part I The Culture Warrior 1 1. Jordan Peterson, Secular
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