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May 29, 2022
12 deadliest school shootings: sex of perpetrator, school type
Following up on School shooters — three hypotheses. Here now are the 12 deadliest K-12 school shootings in the USA since 1970, sorted by date and by deadliness (source: The New York Times): One observation: School shootings have become deadlier. Next adding the sex of the shooters and the school type, whether public or private …
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May 28, 2022
Approaching 4 million views: *Nietzsche and the Nazis* documentary/book
The original documentary was produced in 2006 and had success with Netflix. The print book came out in 2010, followed by several translations. This audiobook edition was produced in 2013. For a philosophy book, this is unexpected, and when it gets to four million views we will be popping the champagne bottle literally and figuratively. …
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May 27, 2022
School shooters — three hypotheses
Let’s start with a statistic: “Over the course of the last 25 years, sixteen teenage boys have committed a mass murder at an American elementary or high school.”* Additionally, many other teenage males were planning to kill but were discovered and prevented. So: Why so many (a) young (b) men desiring to (c) kill in …
May 26, 2022
Locke and Rational Individualism [Education’s Villains and Heroes course]
In this second session of the online Education’s Villains and Heroes course, 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 and related topics, visit …
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May 25, 2022
TODAY: Discussing the Buffalo Shooter’s manifesto, and Didactic Art, with Stephen Hicks and Robert Tracinski
Join The Atlas Society for a special webinar discussion with Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks, and Senior Fellow, Robert Tracinski, on Wednesday, May 25 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET where they will cover how we should understand art and the process of creation along with an Objectivist perspective on current events surrounding the recent Buffalo shooter and his …
May 24, 2022
Obedience: Milgram vs. Kant
Contrast these two approaches to moral education: Text versions of the quotations above: “The essence of obedience is that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person’s wishes, and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.” (Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority, emphasis added) “Above all …
May 23, 2022
The Buffalo Shooter’s manifesto, Didactic art and Wokism — Hicks and Tracinski discussion coming up
On Wednesday at 4 p.m. Central, columnist Rob Tracinski and I will discuss those topics, followed by a Q&A, as part of TAS’s Current Events series. Register here.
May 22, 2022
Was Nietzsche individualist? Art-versus-individualism version
Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his early The Birth of Tragedy: “the subject—the striving individual bent on furthering his egoistic purposes—can be thought of only as the enemy of art, never its source.” Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is complicated. For more, check out my “Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” …
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May 21, 2022
What is “Right Wing”?
Historically, “right wing” and “left wing” came into use in late 18th-century France, designating seating positions in the Assembly during the early stage of the Revolution. Birds of a feather flocked together. The “right wing” was animated in its opposition to the Enlightenment, whose philosophes had risen to prominence and were poised to transform society …
May 20, 2022
Professor Lentricchia on the use of Power in the Classroom [Pope Lecture Series]
If the pursuit of truth is rejected on postmodern grounds, what replaces it? 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 …
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