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Was Nietzsche really individualist? Post-Socrates version

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. Yet frequently Nietzsche rejects individualism and elements that go into a full account of individual. For example, note this from his The Struggle Between Science and Wisdom: “Beginning with Socrates, the individual all at once began to take himself too seriously” (SSW 132). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is …

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Quantifying Wokeness

The long march through the institutions in graphs. Check out series by data scientist David Rozado series on Twitter, especially the updated graphs posted in August 2022. * First, academic postmodernism’s high theory is developed in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, especially in philosophy. * Second, it spreads through other humanities fields (Literature, …

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Sexual Misconduct by Teachers and other Public School Employees

This report by Charol Shakeshaft of Hofstra University. Some excerpted tables: Contrast: A report on Catholic priests found that “about 4 percent of the 110,000 priests active during those years [1950-2002] had been accused of sexual misconduct involving children” (Source; also here).

El Capitalismo Liberal Genera Más Filantropía [*Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español]

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. Argumento 7: El capitalismo liberal genera más …

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Studying postmodernism | Ayn Rand Fan Club interviews Stephen Hicks (excerpt) [In Case You Missed It]

Studying posmodernism with Stephen Hicks In this interview, Professor Hicks answers questions from the Ayn Rand Fan Club. This conversation took place on June 9, 2021. Related: “Rand, Montessori, and Education,” Lecture 11 of Dr. Hicks’s online Philosophy of Education course.

Stephen Hicks | The Life & Philosophy Of Friedrich Nietzsche

Ryan Faulkner-Hogg and I had three long-form conversations about Nietzsche’s intellectual journey, one conversation on his early activities, one on the middle works, and one on his later life. At Atlas Geographica channel, all three conversations are integrated into a three-hour uber-conversation: Related: * Nietzsche and the Nazis.* Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand.

Is Scandinavia “democratic socialist” while the USA is “capitalist”?

The Scandinavian nations are consistently in the top 10% most free-market capitalist nations, and more so than the USA which is currently ranked 25th.  That’s been the case for the last generation of rankings in, e.g., this Index of Economic Freedom. The Index ranks 177 nations around the world. That means the top 18 nations …

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Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español coming soon

My Liberalism: Pro and Con has been translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde. We will be serially publishing here each part prior to the publication of the book as a whole. Find the English version here: Amazon. From the blurb for the English edition: In this primer, we take up the best arguments for and …

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Los Pobres Están Mejor Bajo el Capitalismo Liberal [*Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español]

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. Argumento 6: Los pobres están mejor bajo …

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How to get from subjectivism to authoritarianism: Four minutes from Stephen Hicks on Will Knowland’s channel

Also: What Nietzsche contributed to conflict and power philosophies. The full interview is here: