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January 18, 2022
Course syllabi, Spring 2022 semester
Sports Ethics (PHIL 223): https://www.stephenhicks.org/courses-... Business and Economic Ethics (PHIL 325): forthcoming.
Pinker on why we’re not “post-truth”
Read this. Thanks to Raymond Raad for the link.
January 17, 2022
Life advice from Clint Eastwood at 91
From an interview with Clint Eastwood: Interviewer: ‘How old are you, Clint?’ Clint: ‘I turn 91 on Monday.’Interviewer: ‘What are you going to do?’ Clint: ‘I am going to start a new movie.’Interviewer: ‘What keeps you going?’ Clint: ‘I get up every day and don’t let the old man in.”
January 16, 2022
The world’s worst chemical disaster: Bhopal
In Bhopal, India, in 1984 chemicals spilled out of an industrial plant, killing and damaging tens of thousands of people. The long-term death toll is about 16,000 people, making it the worst human-caused environmental disaster in history. It’s important to understand why that happened. In the high-tech society we strive to be, it is essential …
January 15, 2022
Current Events with Stephen Hicks and Richard Salsman.
Our commentary on current events. This week’s topics: Inflation at 7% Why and what next? Free speech survey in universities, gender gap results: young women much more likely to want to ban words; a significant minority of young men also agree with bans. Progress: Pig heart transplanted into human. SCOTUS strikes down vaccine mandates. The …
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Education Theory 7: Idealism, Plato, and Kant
15-lecture series by Professor Stephen R.C. Hicks, Rockford University. Part Seven: Idealism and Education. What did the great Idealist philosophers believe and how did they apply it to education? The associated reading excerpts are here: Plato (https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-conte...) and Kant (https://www.stephenhicks.org/wp-conte...). Previous lectures in the series: Part One: Introduction: What is the purpose of education, and …
January 13, 2022
How Sweden became rich
This is a great opening: “Once upon a time I got interested in theories of economic development because I had studied a low-income country, poorer than Congo, with life expectancy half as long and infant mortality three times as high as the average developing country. “That country is my own country, Sweden—less than 150 years …
January 12, 2022
The Anti-Capitalism Course: The Revolutionary Proletariat Versus Capitalism
With Dr. Stephen Hicks Session 1, TODAY. Dr. Hicks is excited to announce that The Anti-Capitalism Course is set to begin the evening of Wednesday, January 12th, live on KAZM for Atlas Intellectuals. The course will be free online and live. “Capitalism has been a major success in the modern world, yet it continues to be …
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Is ambition good? | Philosophy for Real Life (16 of 22) | Stephen Hicks
Two-minute answers to key questions about philosophy, politics, art, and the meaning of life. Filmed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The full series is published at the CEE Video Channel. Description: At some point in our lives, we each ask ourselves the big questions. How we respond has great impact on our lives. Some accept easy …
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January 11, 2022
Me and mini-Marx photo
In conjunction with The Anti-Capitalism Course‘s beginning tomorrow, I re-post this picture of me and a small, red statue of Karl Marx, taken in his hometown of Trier, Germany, in 2018 on the 200th anniversary of his birth.
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