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February 23, 2022
From Wisconsin lecture trip: Hayek quotation
My three-lecture tour got me this photo op:
In Case You Missed It: The Atlas Society Asks Stephen Hicks
Here’s a wide-ranging interview of philosopher Stephen Hicks by The Atlas Society’s CEO Jennifer Grossman about philosophy, Objectivism, the rise of Woke culture, the debates over racism, and his career. Also on the Atlas Society YouTube Channel. Related: Stephen Hicks video lecture on Objectivism, Rand, and Montessori Education
The Anti-Capitalism Course: “Elitist Versus the Working Man’s Socialisms”
With Professor Stephen Hicks The third session of The Anti-Capitalism Course will be: “Elitist Versus the Working Man’s Socialisms.” Link to register for the session at Kazm. Reading in preparation for the session: George Orwell, “What about Socialism?” (excerpt from The Road to Wigan Pier, 1937). For those who want the full book: The Road to Wigan Pier (1937). You …
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February 22, 2022
2/22/22 or 22/2/22 ?
Americans and Canadians write it as they say it: “February 22, 2022” is written as 2/2/22. Others write it from smallest to largest unit of time: day/month/year, so 22/2/22. As for the numerology, various sources have it that 2 means balance, femininity, intuition, peace, union, new beginnings, and related stuff. In Pythagoras’s system, 2 is …
How to Win Every Argument
Easy-peasy: How to Win Every Argument: Useful line #1: “Everyone who disagrees with me is Hitler.” Useful line #2: “All who disagree with me have a false consciousness instilled in them by the ruling class.” That is: All of your adversaries are either monsters or victims.
February 21, 2022
Milwaukee Art Museum — put it on your travel list
The structure overlooking Lake Michigan is magnificent. Paired here with a painting from the museum’s collection—another love-of-light-and-space work.
Most stuff is getting cheaper: Cost of goods measured in labor time needed to buy
How long does one need to work, on average, to afford a given thing? Measuring the (mostly) falling costs of various goods across time.
February 20, 2022
Anti-body Idealism
Plato’s Idealism: “If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself … no pure knowledge is possible in the company of the body … so long as we are alive, we shall continue closest to knowledge if …
February 19, 2022
Education Theory 9: Pragmatism and John Dewey
15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Nine: Pragmatism and Education. What did the great Pragmatist philosophers, and John Dewey in particular, 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: …
On self-dissolution under the Nazis — a student’s memoir
Excerpt from Charles Taylor on Sebastian Haffner’s memoir Defying Hitler, including his experience as a law student early in the National Socialist regime. If by now the incidents that follow are familiar—the intimidation, the erosion of press freedom, violence in the streets, people fleeing or attempting to flee—it’s their novelty to Haffner that carries the …
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