[My annual re-posting for this season’s festivities.] We all know the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge. Or do we? Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol has generated an astonishing variety of interpretations, and as with most rich tales the interpretations often tell us as much about the interpreter as the original story. The legend of Robin Hood […]
Ebenezer Scrooge as an Aristotelian Hero Read More »
This is a song to celebrate banks, Because they are full of money and you go into them and all you hear is clinks and clanks, Or maybe a sound like the wind in the trees on the hills, Which is the rustling of the thousand dollar bills. Most bankers dwell in marble halls, Which
“Bankers are just like anybody else, except richer,” Ogden Nash Read More »
At Britain’s CHURCH and STATE site, my article “Is Religion Worth Arguing About?” has been republished. Thanks to Declan and Lola Heavey for selecting it. The article is followed by a series of video clips with me on postmodernism and real education. [Related: “How to Tame Religious Terrorists.” All of my articles at CHURCH and
“Is Religion Worth Arguing About?” [CHURCH and STATE] Read More »
An interview with philosopher R. Kevin Hill, translator of the new edition of Nietzsche’s The Will to Power, published by Penguin in 2017.
R. Kevin Hill on philosophy and Nietzsche’s *The Will to Power* Read More »
I need to write this up, but here’s my working hypothesis: *Metaphysically*, philosophy was born with Thales and the Milesians. *Epistemologically*, it was born with Parmenides and the Eleatics. The Milesian school began around 600 BCE on the coast of Asia minor. The Eleatic school began around 500 BCE about 1100 kilometers west in the
The *Two* Births of Philosophy Read More »
From Jordan Hill’s introduction to our one-hour podcast: “I’d like to introduce our next guest, one of my favorite living philosophers and the author of the great book *Explaining Postmodernism*. In Episode One of this podcast, we talked about postmodernism as an antagonist to the project of liberalism and Western civilization. My next guest, Stephen
Postmodernism is *part* of the Western canon: interviewed by Jordan Alexander Hill Read More »
As the semester draws to a close for my Introduction to Philosophy course, we are discussing the meaning of life. Up today is the Myth of Sisyphyus, so below is my video-discussion of it. Here also is a PDF of some of the associated reading excerpts on what makes life meaningful — or whether it
Camus and Sisyphus [This Week in Class] Read More »
Here is the transcription [PDF], carefully made by Paula Nedved. The original video is available at YouTube, with captions, and the HTML text will be posted online in January 2018.
PDF of Jordan B. Peterson and Stephen R. C. Hicks 2017 discussion Read More »