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July 2, 2022
On Cultural Marxism, Colonialism and Racial Rhetoric — With Lucas Skrobot
In conversation with Dubai’s Lucas Skrobot.
July 1, 2022
Giroux on re-training teachers [Stephen Hicks’s Pope Series Lecture]
In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers …
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June 29, 2022
Rousseau & Emotionalist Collectivism [Education’s Villains and Heroes course]
In this third session of the online course “Education’s Villains and Heroes” we will discuss Rousseau’s influential Emotionalist Collectivism. * Reading to prepare for this session: Jean-Jacques Rousseau on early childhood education, excerpts from Émile (1762): Books I and II. * Link to register: ZOOM To see more of our courses and related topics, visit …
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June 28, 2022
Barbara Oakley’s *Mindshift* book
For those interested in improving their thinking skills and applied cognition, I recommend Professor Oakley’s Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential. Disclosure: Prof. Oakley quotes me in the book, and I wrote on a theme inspired by Oakley’s excellent earlier book, Pathological Altruism (Oxford 2011).
June 25, 2022
Libertarian Postmodernism? The Debate
In New York I debated Dr. Thaddeus Russell, who argues that postmodernism is correct and useful in advocating for a free society. I disagreed, arguing that the Enlightenment is essential to liberty and that postmodernism is an explicit reject of all Enlightenment and libertarian principles. The SOHO Forum debate was moderated by Gene Epstein. Post-script: …
June 21, 2022
Texts in Philosophy — early Summer 2022 additions
For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Albert Camus, excerpt from “Return to Tipasa” (1952). John Stuart Mill, “The Contagious Diseases Acts — Testimony” (1871). Tom G. Palmer, “Myths of Individualism” (1996). Jean-Jacques Rousseau, excerpts from Émile (1762): Books I and II; from Book IV: “The Creed of a Savoyard …
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June 20, 2022
Shakespeare: “it is excellent to have a giant’s strength”
I like this line from Shakespeare’s 1623 play: “O! it is excellent To have a giant’s strength, but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.“ Shakespeare, Measure for Measure. Related: “Why Power Does Not Corrupt.”
June 19, 2022
Was Nietzsche individualist? Ordering-of-rank version
Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his The Will to Power: “My philosophy aims at ordering of rank not at an individualistic morality” (287; emphasis in the original). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” (audio version; text version).
June 18, 2022
Logocentric discussion on Continental philosophers: Daxton Page and Stephen Hicks
Our topics with timestamps: 00:00:45 Introduction 00:01:18 Is Nietzsche’s philosophy positive? 00:03:06 Postmodernists as fundamentally jaded 00:03:48 Herbert Marcuse: Hermeneutics of Suspicion 00:07:26 Critical Theory: Marxism Modified? 00:12:00 Immanuel Kant-not postmodern, but… 00:17:08 More on Kant and the use of labels 00:26:29 Postmodernism’s discomfort with Categories and Labels 00:28:53 Marx or Rousseau as Guide? 00:35:37 …
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June 17, 2022
John Gray’s anti-Enlightenment [Stephen Hicks’s Pope Lecture]
In this invited lecture, Dr. Hicks surveys key educational ideas from pre-modern times, the modern era, and our post-modern times. Ancient education often stressed discipline, obedience and rule following, while modern thinkers such as Galileo, Locke, and Montaigne stressed independent judgment and the power of reason. He then examines a series postmodern (and fellow-traveler) thinkers …
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