Serbo-Croatian translation of my “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship”

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If business begins with entrepreneurship, then so should business ethics. Alma Causevic translated into Serbo-Croatian my journal article “What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship.” The essay was originally published in English [pdf] in the Journal of Private Enterprise and was for awhile on the Social Science Research Network’s “Top Ten” list of papers in […]

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Ridley on scientific heresies, past and present

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What distinguishes science from pseudo-science?Why is confirmation bias so hard to overcome?Why were many great scientists in history were labeled heretics?And why have so many crank theories been empowered and killed millions of people? The next time I teach philosophy of science, this “Scientific Heresy” talk by Matt Ridley will be on the reading list.

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COMMUNISM & INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM. ENGELS & MARX. Lecture 3 of *The Philosophy of Politics: From the French Revolution to World War II*

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Marx: “The religious world is but the reflex of the real world.” And: “Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.“ About the Course In this eight-lecture course, Professor Stephen Hicks takes us through the development of political philosophy from the late

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ANALYSTS OF THE SELF: SIGMUND FREUD and MARTIN HEIDEGGER. Lecture 2 of Postmodern Philosophy [Peterson Academy course]

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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

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The PRUSSIAN MODEL. Lecture 6 of *Philosophy of Education*

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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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