I’ll be giving a short talk at my university as part of its Faculty Brown Bag Series: “Was Philosophy Responsible for National Socialism?” My answer will be “Yes,” drawing upon themes from my book Nietzsche and the Nazis. All students, staff, and faculty are invited to attend on Monday, October 1 at 12 p.m. in […]
Upcoming talk at Rockford University, Brown Bag Series Read More »
“It is not as easy as you imagine to be a pure egoist, and none such have ever succeeded. The apparent egoism of great nations and of great men is the inevitable sternness with which anyone who has his life fixed on some undertaking must bear himself. When we are really going to do something
Ortega y Gasset on egoism and dedication to purpose Read More »
1. Socrates deletes his account. 2. Plato posts screenshots of Socrates. 3. Aristotle unfollows Plato. 4. Aquinas retweets Jesus. 5. Descartes mutes Aquinas. 6. Locke mutes Descartes. 7. Kant unfollows Locke and Descartes. 8. Hegel subtweets Kant. 9. Schopenhauer blocks Hegel. 10. Marx likes Hegel. 11. Nietzsche gets hacked. 12. Heidegger DMs Arendt. 13. Adorno
A Brief History of Philosophy — social-media version Read More »
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Ruth Benedict, excerpts from Patterns of Culture (1934) on moral relativism. Richard P. Feynman, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!” (1985). Sigmund Freud, “Man is a wolf to man”. Excerpt from Civilization and Its Discontents (1930). Stephen Jay Gould, “Sex, Drugs, Disasters, and the
Texts in Philosophy — Fall 2018 additions Read More »
[The following is a translation into Polish of my “Is Republishing Hitler’s *Mein Kampf* the Correct Decision?” Thanks to Professor Piotr Kostyło for making this translation possible.] Czy ponowna publikacja książki Adolfa Hitlera Mein Kampf jest słuszną decyzją? Po długich dekadach obowiązywania zakazu, niemieckie władze wyrażają zgodę na ponowną publikację książki Adolfa Hitlera Mein Kampf.
Polish translation of “Is Republishing Hitler’s Mein Kampf the Correct Decision?” Read More »
Make up your mind. Make a move. Make something. Make a deal. Make a career. Make a home. Make love. Make a family. Make a life.
Chart 1.3: Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Post-modernism Pre-modernism Modernism Post-modernism Metaphysics Realism: Super-naturalism Realism: Naturalism Anti-realism Epistemology Mysticism and/or faith Objectivism: Experience and reason Social subjectivism Human Nature Original Sin; Subject to God’s will Tabula rasa and autonomy Social construction and conflict Ethics Collectivism: altruism Individualism Collectivism: egalitarianism Politics & Economics Feudalism Liberal
Defining Pre-modernism, Modernism, and Postmodernism [Explaining Postmodernism] Read More »
On the beautiful usefulness of dialectic, as Marx expressed in a letter to Engels about a predictive claim he’d made: “It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to
Marx as proto-postmodernist — revealing quotation Read More »