In this eight-lecture course, Professor Hicks takes us on a journey through the evolution of modern moral philosophy, from the Enlightenment to the 21st century. Major thinkers covered include: John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Arthur Schopenhauer, Søren Kierkegaard, Auguste Comte, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ruth Benedict, A.J. Ayer, and Philippa Foot. For each, […]

“The State is the Divine Idea as it exists on Earth.” Source: Georg Hegel, Philosophy of History [1830/1831]. Related: On the fuller context of Hegel’s provocative claim: Related: On Hegel’s place in the historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (print or e-book), or audiobook:

George Orwell in 1944: “The thing that strikes me more and more—and it strikes a lot of other people, too—is the extraordinary viciousness and dishonesty of political controversy in our time.” A perennial lesson: Useful political commentary is as much a matter of character as it is of informed intelligence. Source: George Orwell, “As I

It would have taken me 30 minutes to write this. Grok did it in 20 seconds: Q: What is Stephen Hicks’s position on postmodernism? A: Stephen Hicks, a Canadian-American philosopher, is a prominent critic of postmodernism. In his book Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (2004), he argues that postmodernism is a

Here are the 10 countries with the highest average salaries (2025): 1. Luxembourg: $89,767/year​2. Iceland: $87,421/year​3. Switzerland: $83,332/year​4. United States: $80,115/year​5. Belgium: $73,206/year​6. Norway: $71,972/year​7. Austria: $71,167/year​8. Netherlands: $70,185/year​9. Denmark: $69,525/year​10. Australia: $67,101/year​ ​Impressive. Yet consider also their population sizes: Luxembourg: 763 thousand. Iceland: 393 thousand. Switzerland: 8.9 million. United States: 340 million. Belgium: 11.8 million.

By Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University, USA. Lecture 6: If education is a systematic process of preparing one for life, and a philosophy of life is an integrated set of views on metaphysics, epistemology, human nature, and values, how does one connect a full philosophy of life to an education strategy? Previous lectures in