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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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June 15, 2022
Moral dilemma in museum preservation
Suppose a building at a former concentration camp was designed, built, and used as a torture chamber. The camp is now only a museum for those interested in the history. But one night during a storm, the former torture building gets a broken window. Question: Do you repair the window? Related: I took the picture …
June 14, 2022
Prostitution, principles and integrity: Oscar Wilde anecdote
Oscar Wilde was seated next to an elegant lady at a dinner party. The conversation became animated and contesting, and Wilde asked the women if she would go to bed with him for one million pounds. The woman was flustered, but upon consideration said Yes, she probably would. Wilde then asked if she would go …
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June 12, 2022
Nietzsche’s *Zarathustra* and *Beyond Good and Evil*, with Faulkner-Hogg
Stephen Hicks and Ryan Faulkner-Hogg discuss the great philosopher’s mature period. Who is Zarathustra? How does one become who one really is? What explains the Great Inversion: the decline of master morality and the rise of slave morality? Related: Ryan and Stephen discussing the influence of Schopenhauer on the young Nietzsche. Stephen Hicks’s Nietzsche and …
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June 11, 2022
Goats and the contingency of history
At the rate of one woman per night, that would take 13.7 years. “In 281, Emperor Wu took 5,000 women from Sun Hao’s palace into his own, and thereafter became even more concentrated on feasting and enjoying the women, rather than on important matters of state. It was said that there were so many beautiful …
June 10, 2022
Top regrets of the dying
A palliative care nurse reports the top five regrets that patients expressed to her: 1. I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me. “This was the most common regret of all. When people realise that their life is almost over and look back …
June 8, 2022
TODAY: Locke and Rational Individualism [Education’s Villains and Heroes course]
Join us today in this second session of the online Education’s Villains and Heroes course, where we will be discussing philosopher John Locke’s writings on education. (Complete course description here.) To prepare for this session: * Link to register: KAZM. * Reading: excerpt from John Locke, Some Thoughts concerning Education (1692). To see more of our courses …
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June 7, 2022
How to make a title for your postmodern essay
The postmodern rules for titles are: Use at least one “neo-” and/or “de-” prefix, indicate a “critical” stance towards “capitalist” and/or “patriarchal,” and stick a colon in the middle. Just keep refreshing this generator page until you find one you like and then “borrow” it. Credit to Andrew C. Bulhak of Monash University. Related: Explaining …
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