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July 25, 2023
Henry Giroux on Education: against Modernity and White Male Eurocentrism
Stephen Hicks discusses postmodernist Henry Giroux on education. This is from Part 14 of his Philosophy of Education course. See also Professor Hicks’s full series on Philosophy of Education at YouTube via these playlists.
July 22, 2023
Open Objectivism or Closed? PowerPoint of my debate presentation
Ayn Rand Center Europe invited me and and Craig Biddle to Belgrade to debate whether Objectivism is an open or closed philosophy. I argued for open and Mr. Biddle argued for closed. The following recording of the debate does not show the slides I used with quotations and other materials, so I am posting my …
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July 21, 2023
Wynand’s power strategy [80th anniversary of *The Fountainhead* series]
The character Gail Wynand pursues a use-and-be-used career strategy. Wynand uses strong-arm tactics when necessary in building up his newspaper’s market; he manipulates his employees with money to break their integrity; he fires those (like Dominique) who refuse to bend; and he lets the lowest-common-denominator of public taste dictate the content of the newspaper he …
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July 15, 2023
El Capitalismo Liberal es simplemente otra narrativa subjetiva. [Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español]
Quince argumentos para el Capitalismo Liberal: Este post va a formar parte de una serie de argumentos del libro “Liberalism: Pro & Con” de Stephen Hicks en español. Pueden encontrar todos los argumentos que serán publicados en orden en el siguiente link: Liberalism: Pro & Con en español. EN CONTRA Argumento 14: El Capitalismo Liberal …
July 14, 2023
W. K. Clifford on philosophical writing style
Reprising this classic from the Department of Collegial Zingers: here is W. K. Clifford on an intellectual acquaintance: “He is writing a book on metaphysics, and is really cut out for it; the clearness with which he thinks he understands things and his total inability to express what little he knows will make his fortune …
July 12, 2023
Leonardo da Vinci | “Mona Lisa” (1503-1504) | Newberry on Great Art series
An Artist’s View: Michael Newberry on Key Works of Art in History Michael Newberry is a California-based artist who has exhibited across Europe and North America. He is the author of books on color theory, philosophy of art, modernism and postmodernism in art, and art history. We invited him into our studio for this series …
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July 9, 2023
“The Doctrine of Fascism” | Mussolini and Gentile | *Philosophers, Explained* series 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 …
July 8, 2023
Open Objectivism or Closed? Philosophy as *discovered* facts, not *created* fiction
Ayn Rand was a philosopher and an artist, and she carefully distinguished the status of works that are discoveries from those that are creations: “A scientific or philosophical discovery, which identifies a law of nature, a principle or a fact of reality not previously known, cannot be the exclusive property of the discoverer because (a) …
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July 6, 2023
Haruki Murakami on standard education and Russian novelists
Reprising this post from reading Murakami’s Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. A character comments: “Everyone must have one thing that they can excel at. It’s just a matter of drawing it out, isn’t it? But school doesn’t know how to draw it out. It crushes the gift. It’s no wonder most people …
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July 3, 2023
More 1776, less 1984
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