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September 19, 2023
Quantifying Wokeness
The long march through the institutions in graphs. Check out series by data scientist David Rozado series on Twitter, especially the updated graphs posted in August 2022. * First, academic postmodernism’s high theory is developed in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, especially in philosophy. * Second, it spreads through other humanities fields (Literature, …
September 17, 2023
“On Christian Virtue” | Mere Christianity | C.S. Lewis | *Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks
Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian …
Debate or not? A psychological red flag
Exhibit A: Suppose one is studying Plato’s philosophy and encounters this question: Are the Forms to be taken as metaphysical realities or as rhetorical devices? One notes that for years scholars have informally discussed the issue. A formal debate is then proposed. Immediately, one observes this among some Platonists: 1.This should not be debated! Plato …
September 16, 2023
Invitation to attend live recording of my Peterson Academy courses
I’m happy to be joining the faculty of the new Peterson Academy, launching November 2023. I’ll be teaching two courses: Modern Philosophy and Postmodern Philosophy. (Syllabi forthcoming.) They’ll be recorded before a live studio audience in Miami, Florida. To attend, register here: https://petersonacademy.com/hicks.
Love and Hate in Uncertain Times [Stephen Hicks lecture in Belgrade, Serbia]
How did the ideas of liberty prevail in the past? What stands behind humanity’s enormous progress in the past couple of centuries? Stephen Hicks answered these questions at an international conference hosted by ARCE. Related: Professor Hicks’s book on the anti-Enlightenment origins of Postmodernism, Wokism, and Cancel Culture.
Nicomachean Ethics | Book 1 | Aristotle | Philosophers, Explained by Stephen Hicks
Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian …
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September 15, 2023
Science *and* Religion or Science *vs.* Religion? | Galileo Galilei | *Philosophers, Explained*
In this episode of Philosophers, Explained, Dr. Hicks discusses the open letter Galileo wrote arguing that true science and true religion are in fact compatible. Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University …
September 14, 2023
Why did Bertrand Russell blame German fascism on German philosophy?
Reprising this from Thomas Akehurst’s Philosophy Now essay on why Bertrand Russell blamed German fascism on German philosophy: “What is less well known is that in the 1930s and 1940s Russell’s attention turned to the idea that the origins of Nazism were primarily philosophical.” Russelll, according to Akehurst, mentioned several German philosophers by name, among …
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September 13, 2023
Löwy on anti-capitalist intelligenstia
Löwy raises the right question about the generation straddling 1900: So much of understanding the past 100 years turns on getting the answer right. That’s my project in Nietzsche and the Nazis and Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault.
September 12, 2023
“Crito” | Plato | *Philosophers, Explained by Stephen Hicks
Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., the University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian …
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