I’m happy to announce I’m on my way to Kraków to be in residence at the university as visiting professor. I’ll each a course on Entrepreneurial Education and deliver a keynote lecture at this international conference on Philosophy of Education. 1364 — that was Jagiellonian University’s founding year, making it one of the ancient universities […]
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Why did World War I happen? Many causal factors, and philosophy was an important one. Stephen Boydstun nicely summarizes and comments on John Dewey, Philosophy, and the German Aggression. (Posted at Irfan Khawaja’s site.) See also my shorter 2015 post John Dewey on Kant and the Causes of World War I.
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This unit of the self-paced course on Socialism focuses on a theorist, revolutionary, and a leading figure in the October Revolution and the foundation of the Soviet Union. See our Executive Summary of Vladimir Lenin’s “How to Organize Competition”: ‘to achieve competitive socialism, Lenin urges that all the “vermin” be eradicated in Russia. War must
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“I had to deny knowledge,” wrote Kant in the Preface to the first Critique, “in order to make room for faith.” For more on the meaning and implications of Immanuel Kant’s contributions to postmodernism, see my Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism from Rousseau to Foucault (pp. 97-98). Information about other editions and translations of Explaining Postmodernism is
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Yesterday, Dr. Richard Salsman and I discussed those four topics at the monthly Current Events program hosted by TAS’s CEO Jennifer Grossman. Here’s a link to the David Rozado, et al., paper I discuss: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/08944393211031452?journalCode=ssce
Los Conservadores NO Son Capitalistas de Libre-Mercado Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Los conservadores e izquierdistas discrepan entre sí a menudo, pero ambos están en desacuerdo con los capitalistas liberales. El punto general aquí será que los debates políticos rara vez son bidireccionales; Casi siempre los capitalistas liberales se enfrentan a la oposición desde
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This week in the A.U. course on Socialism we cover Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto of the Communist Party. Marx, who devised the ideology of communism, proclaims the inevitable self-destruction of capitalism due to its internal contradictions and urges communists to lead the world to a classless society. The full course: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/socialism. Other Waterfall
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