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February 8, 2022
Re-learning tolerance, 21st century version
In the religious wars of the16th and 17th centuries, persecution, torture, and killing were widespread. Yet out of that ugliness we learned, morally, that tolerating others’ mistaken views is essential and, politically, that individuals must be free to think, learn, and act. We learned to live and let live in regular life, and we learned …
February 7, 2022
Young B. Franklin on free speech and wisdom
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech; which is the Right of every Man, as far as by it, he does not hurt or controul the Right of another: And this is the only Check it ought to suffer, …
February 6, 2022
When professors are hired ideologically
Historical example to keep in mind: Text version: “Although the new National Socialist government refused to grant its student supporters the power they demanded to hire and fire professors, it did make job tenure a matter of political ideology.” (Source: historian Arthur Herman’s fine 1997 book, The Idea of Decline in Western History, p. 252)
Review of Zelmanovitz on the philosophy of money
Review of Leonidas Zelmanovitz,The Ontology and Function of Money: The Philosophical Fundamentals of Monetary Institutions Lexington Books, 2015, 447 pp.Reviewed by Stephen HicksFirst published at Law and Liberty, edited by Richard Reinsch and Lauren Weiner. Money is funny, the old saying goes, both in the cognitive puzzles it generates and the motivational extremes of human …
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February 5, 2022
Strength of mind
It takes strength of mind to say: “I dislike intensely what you’re saying, yet I will tolerate your saying it.” It takes even more strength to respond with arguments rather than fists or censorship. Related:
Was Goebbels a Socialist?
Joseph Goebbels, Ph.D., was Reich Minister of Propaganda for the National Socialist government from 1933 to 1945 and, after Hitler, the second or third most powerful man in Germany. “According to the idea of the NSDAP [Nazi party], we are the German left. Nothing is more hateful to us than the right-wing national ownership block.” …
Education Theory 8: Realism, Aristotle, and Locke
15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Eight: Realism and Education. What did the great Realist philosophers believe and how they apply it to education? Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and what is philosophy’s relevance? Part Two: Reality: Metaphysics and Education. The Creation …
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February 4, 2022
Stephen Hicks: The Anti-Capitalism Course: “Fascism vs Capitalism” (February 9th)
Session 2 The second session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be “Fascism versus Capitalism.” The reading for this session is Giovanni Gentile and Benito Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism. Gentile, a well-known professor at several Italian universities, co-authored this influential work with Mussolini. Link to register for the session at Kazm. You can also check out the …
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February 3, 2022
Why did art become ugly? | Philosophy for Real Life (19 of 22) | Stephen Hicks
Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Art is about the full range of human experience, but Modernist and Postmodernist art emphasize the meaningless and the offensive. Why? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in …
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Wisconsin Forum — public lecture coming up
On February 17, I’ll be speaking in Milwaukee. I’m honored to be part of Wisconsin Forum’s line-up for the 2021-2022 season. My question will be: The economic, political, and historical evidence for the superiority of free societies is substantial — yet so many are suspicious or outright hostile, and often authoritarian policies prevail over genuinely …
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