Archilochus

I think of him as the anti-Homer poet. While Homer’s subjects are gods and heroes, Archilochus writes of drunkenness, running away to live and perhaps fight another day, the common man with his feet planted firmly on the ground — and, occasionally of sweet love. Not much is known about him other than that he […]

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Curing epilepsy — peonies, the gospel, and hair of the dog

Medieval medical know-how: “John of Gaddesden (1280-1349), physician to Edward II and compiler of the encyclopaedic Rosa anglica medicinae [The English Rose of Medicine], recommended reciting the gospel over an epileptic patient while bedecking him with peony and chrysanthemum amulets or the hair of a white dog” (From Roy Porter’s excellent The Greatest Benefit to

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Kostyło’s review of *Nietzsche and the Nazis*

Professor Piotr Kostyło of University of Casimir the Great reviewed the Polish edition of Nietzsche and the Nazis. Here’s an English translation of Kostyło’s review: “Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism” [pdf]. The original Polish: “Czy wiemy, za czym cie opowiedamy? Stephena Hickss obrana indywidualizmu”. The review was published in

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RIKS interview of Stephen Hicks, Stockholm, Sweden

The interview is In English, with Swedish overlay: modernity anti-modernity, rationality and illogic, freedom for all and cynical power games. I was interviewed by the smart and well-prepared Dr. Richard Sörman for the RIKS channel on the occasion of a Swedish printing of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (English text here,

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Milei’s Argentina: Stephen Hicks and Richard Salsman discuss

Then: image is from Buenos Aires a few years ago, when Javier Milei (economist, Argentina), Axel Kaiser (economist, Chile), and I gave talks at an event. Both Kaiser and Milei gave great talks, in my judgment, Milei adding his trademark dramatic flair. Now: My Twitter/X Spaces discussion from a couple of weeks ago, when economist

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Thales and the Origin of Philosophy | Philosophers, Explained by Professor Stephen Hicks

Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.

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