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Liberalism: Pro & Con en Español

My Liberalism: Pro and Con has been translated into Spanish by Fermin Elizalde. We will be serially publishing here each part prior to the publication of the book as a whole. Find the English version here: Amazon. From the blurb for the English edition: In this primer, we take up the best arguments for and …

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“The Myth of Sisyphus” | Albert Camus | *Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks

Who are the great philosophers, and what makes them great? Episodes: The full playlist. About the Professor: 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 …

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The ethics of outside funding

A short publication of mine entitled “The Ethics of Outside Funding”. Some years ago there was controversy in the academic world about the BB&T Charitable Foundation’s sponsoring programs on the moral foundations of capitalism. I participated in a conference panel that debated the issue pro and con. After an interesting set of papers and the …

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La igualdad está amenazada por la libertad. [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 10: La igualdad está …

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Sartre on dealing with bad faith “anti-racists”

What Jean-Paul Sartre said about the anti-Semites of his day applies perfectly to the language-and-emotion manipulating so-called “anti-racists” of our day: “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who …

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Paperback edition of Explaining Postmodernism new for 2023

I’m pleased that the book is still in print after so many years, and especially pleased with this new paperback printing. Explaining Postmodernism is a philosophical intellectual history of the roots of postmodernism. Its one-sentence thesis is: The failure of epistemology made postmodernism possible; the failure of socialism made postmodernism necessary. Here are links to …

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Professor Hicks in Stockholm, Sweden (May 2023)

From May 8-13, I will be in lovely Stockholm for a series of interviews and closed events. All will be published afterwards, so please stay tuned for updates. Related: Descartes died in Stockholm — perhaps he should have doubted (ha ha) that the far north was good for a philosopher’s health. Though that was winter …

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Me and mini-Marx

In conjunction with his 205th, I re-post this picture of me and a diminutive Karl Marx, taken in his hometown of Trier, Germany, in 2018 on the 200th anniversary of his birth. Red was an appropriate color for this tribute sculpture given the amount of blood spilled applying his ideas. Related: Marx’s philosophy and its …

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Three Goddesses, c. 438-32 BCE [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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Today: “Ask Us Anything About Philosophy” with Stephen Hicks and David Kelley

Join Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. and Atlas Society founder David Kelley, Ph.D. Wednesday, May 3 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special 90-minute “Ask Us Anything” event where the duo will answer YOUR most pressing philosophical questions. Not yet on Clubhouse? RSVP for the event HERE. RELATED: