Below is the recording schedule for each lecture in my two courses, which will be presented live before a studio audience in Miami. For those in the area (or planning to be), free registration is here: Hicks Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy Two courses by Stephen R.C. Hicks, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy Schedule for studio […]
1 Immanuel Kant on the limits of reason. Critique of Pure Reason. 2 William James on pacifism and defeating militarism. “The Moral Equivalent of War.” 3 Galileo Galilei on not persecuting scientists. “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina.” Coming soon: The 30 in the first series include:
The first three episodes in *Philosophers, Explained* series: Kant, James, Galileo Read More »
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 6: Las sociedades Capitalistas
Las sociedades Capitalistas Liberales son aburridas [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español] Read More »
Related: Close readings of authoritarian thinkers in the Philosophers, Explained series: Hegel, Gentile and Mussolini, Marx and Engels, Heidegger, Dugin, Nietzsche.
The Rise of Authoritarianism Panel [In case you missed it] Read More »
33-minute lecture delivered by Dr. Stephen Hicks at the Museum of World War II, December 2022: Related: Martin Heidegger (“What Is Metaphysics?”) and Alexander Dugin (“Fascism—Borderless and Red”) in the Philosophers, Explained series.
Close readings and commentaries on the major thinkers. Follow at the CEE Video Channel: The 30 in the first series include: Full Series playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kR5Ove3tI&list=PLurzsfhvI4oq3fnsjxS3j9fmlYlZQOMVl
*Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks Read More »
Getting some flak for the placement of Michel Foucault on this spectrum between Marx and Heidegger. So: remember that Foucault himself said: “I am simply a Nietzschean.” And: “Heidegger has always been for me the essential philosopher.”* Heidegger was a member of the National Socialist Party in the 1930s and 1940s. Foucault was a member
Why Foucault as “basically a Nazi”? Read More »
The audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault at YouTube, now with timestamps for easy navigation. This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author. To listen to a specific chapter of the audiobook, visit its YouTube site. To download MP3s of the audiobook or for more information,
Audiobook timestamps for *Explaining Postmodernism* Read More »
At CEE, Stephen Hicks interviewed Jeffrey van Davis about his documentary on Martin Heidegger’s life and thought. Here is the documentary (with timestamps), with interviews of leading scholars of Heidegger: See also the episode on Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?”, in the *Philosophers, Explained* series:
Interview with *Only a God Can Save Us* director van Davis Read More »
Where on the spectrum are you? Heidegger joined the National Socialist Party and was an active and gung-ho supporter. But why this “basically” claim about Nietzsche? Because he said this, along with dozens of other forerunner-to-Nazi things: “mankind in the mass sacrificed to the prosperity of a single stronger species of man — that would
The *politics* of philosophers — graphic Read More »