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“Aphrodite* by Praxiteles, c. 350 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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Getting the history right: John Allison on the 2008 Financial Crisis

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El Capitalismo Liberal es materialista [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 5: El Capitalismo Liberal …

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Heidegger documentary: director Van Davis interview

An interview with Jeffrey Van Davis, the director of the documentary, Only a God Can Save Us (link.) Mr. Van Davis and Professor Hicks discuss the origins of the documentary, some details about its composition, his encounters with the Heidegger family, the premiere of the documentary, and more details on the life of Heidegger. Timestamps: …

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Kant’s joke, according to Nietzsche

Thus spake Friedrich: “Kant’s joke. — Kant wanted to prove, in a way that would dumbfound the whole world, that the whole world was right: that was the secret joke of this soul. He wrote against the scholars in favor of popular prejudice, but for scholars and not for the people.” Nietzsche, *The Gay Science*, …

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James Joyce’s *Ulysses* edited for sensitive readers

Happy to announce the results of a new project to take Joyce’s famous Ulysses and render it safe for modern readers. The 732-page book was published in 1922 before standards of appropriate language were known and enforced. So for this centennial edition, a team of readers was commissioned to bring this historically and literarily important …

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Master and Slave Moralities | Friedrich Nietzsche | *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 …

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Philosophy of History with Stephen Hicks & Robert Tracinski (coming Mar. 15)

Join The Atlas Society for a special webinar discussion with Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks and Senior Fellow Robert Tracinski on Wednesday, March 15 @ 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET, when the duo will discuss the philosophy of history and take up the questions: What causes historical change? What’s the role of ideas, knowledge institutions, or …

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Next week in Chicago: Jefferson Dinner with Stephen Hicks

Get your tickets today at Reliance College’s site. Live in or near the Chicago area? You’re invited to join Professor Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., for a night of ideas and discussion on the topic “What Entrepreneurial Education Is and Why We Need it Now.” Hosted by Reliance College, a new liberal arts college — opening September …

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Zeev Sternhell on the Nazis’ pillaging of Nietzsche

Refreshing this quotation from Zeev Sternhell’s The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition (Yale University Press, 2010), a scholarly study of the most disturbing intellectual trend of the modern world — the ongoing lineage of intellectuals opposed to the Enlightenment tradition of reason, naturalism, individualism, and freedom. Along the way Sternhell asks, of Nietzsche’s place in the trend, an …

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