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Stephen Hicks: Ask Me Anything about Philosophy

Join me Today @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything About Philosophy” event where I will answer questions on philosophy in general and Objectivism in particular. Not yet on Clubhouse? Use this link HERE to get your invite to the platform.

Is Capitalism the Most Moral System? | Philosophy for Real Life (15 of 22) | Stephen Hicks

Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Are respect for individual’s choices and productivity the fundamentals of social morality — or not? Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Pairs with “What is capitalism?” Description: At some point in our …

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Stephen Hicks: Ask Me Anything — Philosophy

Join me Wednesday, January 5 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for an “Ask Me Anything About Philosophy” event, when I will answer any questions about philosophy in general and Objectivism in particular. Not yet on Clubhouse? Use this link HERE to get your invite to the platform, whether you’re on IOS or Android.

Viktor Frankl: On the original preparation for the gas chambers

Frankl was a Holocaust survivor and Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry at the University of Vienna Medical School: I became acquainted with the last stages of corruption in my second concentration camp in Auschwitz. The gas chambers of Auschwitz were the ultimate consequence of the theory that man is nothing but the product of heredity …

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Zarathustra and Nietzsche’s middle period (Hicks and Faulkner-Hogg)

Our one-hour conversation: Zoroaster and Zarathustra, as a literary and philosophical work, including the significance of this quotation from Thus Spake Zarathustra: “I teach you the overman. Human being is something that must be overcome.” “What is the ape to the human?” “The overman is the meaning of the earth, and do not believe those …

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Ressentiment — clip from James Lindsay discussion

Working definition of ressentiment — a stew of envy and self-loathing that has curdled for a long time. Part of the Encroaching Darkness series.

Critical Theory and/or Postmodernism: Hicks, Lindsay, O’Fallon

James Lindsay and I had two conversations about postmodernism and critical theory, hosted by Michael O’Fallon: The Seeds of Collectivism.Encroaching Darkness.

Marx now matters less than Rousseau

I was jointly interviewed by two smart younger guys, Truman of Return to Reason and Kevin of Engineering Politics: What are the major differences between Karl Marx’s socialism and Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s socialism? Is Rousseau really more important than Marx in today’s culture wars? What does being an adult mean, now that we’re so rich and …

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Nietzsche: Masters and Slaves [Sprouts collaboration, Part 3]

Sprouts educational animators and Professor Stephen Hicks collaborated to produce this 3-part series on Nietzsche’s analysis of master/slave psychologies and moralities. Here’s the seven-minute Part 3:

Death by doctor — the king’s medical treatment

Source: Nathan Belofsky, Strange Medicine: A Shocking History of Real Medical Practices Through the Ages (Penguin, 2013), p. 116. Online at Google Books. [If only the goat had been from West India. Classic mistake.] But seriously: Why? The best theories, diligently applied: We’ve read the texts, with their mix of ancient traditions, magic, and alchemy. …

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