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April 6, 2023

Good Woke, Bad Woke (Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress) TODAY

Stephen Hicks Speaks at Utah State University today Atlas Society Senior Scholar and renowned philosopher, Dr. Stephen Hicks will talk at the Utah State University at an open event hosted by the school’s Turning Point USA Chapter. He’ll speak on: Good Woke, Bad Woke (Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress).‍ All are welcome to …

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Published on April 06, 2023 07:00

April 5, 2023

Self-esteem in Walt Whitman and C. S. Lewis

In his notebooks, Walt Whitman wrote: “I never yet knew how it felt to think I stood in the presence of my superior.—If the presence of God were made visible immediately before me, I could not abase myself.” In his Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis wrote: “The real test of being in the presence of …

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Published on April 05, 2023 10:56

April 3, 2023

Open or Closed Objectivism? Stephen Hicks & Craig Biddle to debate

Is Objectivism a “Closed System” or an “Open System”? Stephen Hicks heads to Belgrade, Serbia, from April 10-14th to speak at Ayn Rand Center Europe’s New Intellectuals Conference 2023. In addition to giving a lecture, Love and Hate in Uncertain Times, he’ll take the stage with Craig Biddle, Director of Education at The Objective Standard Institute, to …

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Published on April 03, 2023 07:30

April 2, 2023

Introduction to My Thinking

In Buenos Aires, Argentina, I sat down and responded to 22 questions from Charlie Zagoren and Maria Marty. The questions range over ethics, art, politics, religion, and autobiography. Related: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault, for my views on other philosophers:
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Published on April 02, 2023 07:38

April 1, 2023

Zarathustra’s predatory collectivism

Nietzsche is usually labelled an individualist. One of the more controversy-generating claims of my Nietzsche and the Nazis appears in Section 34, where I argue that Nietzsche is more collectivist than individualist.[1] Re-reading Zarathustra I came across two more relevant quotations. In both cases, Zarathustra is speaking: “A thousand goals there have been until now, …

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Published on April 01, 2023 14:13

“Man’s Rights” | Ayn Rand | *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 …

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Published on April 01, 2023 07:00

March 31, 2023

Dr. Stephen Hicks | The Glenn Beck Show | Ep 15 [In case you missed it]

Glenn sits down with Dr. Stephen Hicks, Philosophy Professor at Rockford University. In this episode, they discuss definitions and differences between capitalism and socialism and the moralities behind them. They also cover: Postmodernism and its ever-growing presence in our society, Existentialism by means of Friedrich Nietzsche’s claim that God is dead, the rise of science …

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Published on March 31, 2023 14:00

El poder es la realidad, así que el Capitalismo Liberal es ingenuo.[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 7: El poder es …

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Published on March 31, 2023 07:00

March 30, 2023

*Only a God Can Save Us* now with Timestamps

Times for the main sections of Jeffrey Van Davis’s documentary on Martin Heidegger’s life and thought: 01:41 Memorial and recollections 07:00 Messkirch 10:55 Early life 14:04 World War I 23:12 Being and Time 36:10 The Rectorship 45:37 Kristallnacht 51:55 Edith Stein 56:18 Hiding from the French 1:01:26 Denazification 1:11:23 Hannah Arendt 1:13:38 Paul Celan 1:19:00 …

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Published on March 30, 2023 07:43

March 29, 2023

Next week in Utah: Good Woke, Bad Woke (Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress)

Stephen Hicks will travel to Utah State University on Thursday, April 6th at 7:00 PM Mountain Time to speak at an open event hosted by the university’s Turning Point USA Chapter. He’ll speak on Good Woke, Bad Woke (Our Debates Over Liberty, Equality, and Progress). If you’re local to the area and want to join Dr. Hicks, you …

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Published on March 29, 2023 12:00

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