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 […]
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Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Our series covers major philosophers and texts. For each, we’ve selected an excerpt and done a close reading with the accompanying text. Our goal is to understand and interpret — not to argue with — though we point out key claims and controversies. This Episode:
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One-minute introduction to the series: Full Series playlist. Philosophers in the first series: Immanuel Kant Plato Galileo Galilei Ayn Rand Jean-Jacques Rousseau René Descartes Jean-Paul Sartre Socrates Martin Heidegger Thomas Aquinas Arachne and Athena Aristotle Albert Camus Friedrich Nietzsche John Dewey Sigmund Freud G.W.F. Hegel William James Søren Kierkegaard John Locke Karl Marx John Stuart
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… as most American intellectuals remain captive to ideas generated in France and Germany a century ago. See: Nietzsche, Marx, Freud, Heidegger, Marcuse, and Foucault.
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El populismo triunfa donde falla la educación Por Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D. Para Hicks, estas escuelas de pensamiento están en constante conflicto. Por un lado, se encuentran los ídolos del sistema educativo de América Latina: Rousseau, Marx, Hegel, Heidegger, Foucault, Sartre, Kant, Nietzsche y Derrida. Por el otro, tenemos a Bacon, Locke, Newton, Smith,
Philosophy matters, but does academic philosophy have more impact than philosophy done outside the academy? A list of historically influential philosophers: Academic Non-academic Plato Socrates Aristotle Locke Aquinas Descartes Galileo Spinoza Smith Hume Kant Kierkegaard Hegel Marx Russell Mill Heidegger Rand Popper Sartre Split: Nietzsche was an academic early in his career and then quit
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For ease of browsing and navigation, this audio edition read by author Stephen R.C. Hicks now has timestamps for each chapter and section: 00:00:00 EXPLAINING POSTMODERNISM 00:00:25 CHAPTER ONE: What Postmodernism Is 00:02:22 The postmodern vanguard: Foucault, Lyotard, Derrida, Rorty 00:09:22 Modern and postmodern 00:12:22 Modernism and the Enlightenment 00:22:50 Postmodernism versus the Enlightenment 00:25:06
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Our topic was the many intellectuals who supported National Socialism — Heidegger, Schmitt, Dietrich — along with the other psychological and cultural factors that explained the enormous popularity and enthusiasm for the Nazis in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Follow-up question: What are the parallels to today’s facist/antifa activists? Our first conversation, on postmodernism
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Dietrich was a Ph.D. in Political Science from Freiburg University (where later Martin Heidegger was professor of philosophy). In a 1934 lecture delivered at the University of Köln, Dietrich bases National Socialist political philosophy directly upon the philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. A key theme of the lecture is Universalism versus Individualism, where individualism
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This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault. The first three chapters now available with timestamps: Chapter One (What Postmodernism Is), Chapter Two (The Counter-Enlightenment Attack on Reason), and Chapter Three (The Twentieth-Century Collapse of Reason), are here. Narrated by the author, Stephen R. C. Hicks. The next three chapters
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