Episode 51 in my Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks podcast series. Many say: “I’m going to die, so what’s the point of anything?” Many say: “I’m going to die, so seize the day!” Why the opposite reactions to the same fact? All audio versions of the podcast are available free at my website, YouTube,
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My lists are here: 1. Favorites in seven categories. https://www.stephenhicks.org/2019/08/11/great-books-recommended-reading/. 2. Best history of philosophy: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2021/03/01/best-history-of-philosophy-my-recommendation/. 3. Four books on postmodernism: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2014/09/16/four-recommended-books-on-postmodernism/. 4. My formative years: https://www.stephenhicks.org/2018/04/28/books-that-influenced-me-most-1973-1982/.
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In this unit of our course on Objectivity we feature Ayn Rand’s Objectivist Ethics. Rand was world-famous as the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged when a collection of essays entitled The Virtue of Selfishness was published in 1964. In the opening essay, Rand presents a sustained argument for her ethic of rational self-interest. The full course on Objectivity: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/objectivity.
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Governments are properly servants of their citizens. But if you’re a politician without principles or a dictator wannabe — and it does not matter if the issue is religious belief, marijuana use, or Covid — the pattern is always the same: * First, you paternalistically order citizens to comply, rather than advising and recommending free
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RIPOL Classic Publishing (Moscow) has published a Russian-language edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. Here’s an image of the final version of the cover. The book’s thesis: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible, and the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary. Information about other editions and translations is here.
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Coming in August 2021. “In this small but powerful book you will discover: * how modernist reduction led to postmodern nihilism; * why postmodern aesthetics is self-defeating; * how understanding this enables to us to unseat it and replace it with meaningful art; * how good aesthetics leads to flourishing ends; * and how being
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Educación Liberal y Sus Críticas Posmodernas Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Es una obviedad decir que la educación está politizada. Sin embargo, mi objetivo aquí es mostrar que las batallas politizadas por la educación no se tratan principalmente de política sino de filosofía. Las batallas políticas toman temperatura, no sólo porque es alto lo
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NASA government budget: $23.3 billion. That’s money taken from citizens via compulsory taxation. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic budget: Less than $1 billion. That’s money earned through voluntary trade. Which one is being complained about says much about the moral character of the complainer.
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