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February 1, 2023
TODAY: “Sanction of the Victim” with Stephen Hicks and David Kelley
Today the Atlas Society is having Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, Ph.D., and Atlas Society founder David Kelley, Ph.D. @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special 90-minute exploration and discussion on Ayn Rand’s theme “the sanction of the victim” and how evil often feeds off people trying to be good. Register here: Sanction …
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January 31, 2023
Audiobook timestamps for *Explaining Postmodernism*
The audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault at YouTube, now with timestamps for easy navigation. This audiobook edition of Explaining Postmodernism is read by the author. To listen to a specific chapter of the audiobook, visit its YouTube site. To download MP3s of the audiobook or for more information, …
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January 30, 2023
Interview with *Only a God Can Save Us* director van Davis
At CEE, Stephen Hicks interviewed Jeffrey van Davis about his documentary on Martin Heidegger’s life and thought. Here is the documentary (with timestamps), with interviews of leading scholars of Heidegger: See also the episode on Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?”, in the *Philosophers, Explained* series:
January 29, 2023
The *politics* of philosophers — graphic
Where on the spectrum are you? Heidegger joined the National Socialist Party and was an active and gung-ho supporter. But why this “basically” claim about Nietzsche? Because he said this, along with dozens of other forerunner-to-Nazi things: “mankind in the mass sacrificed to the prosperity of a single stronger species of man — that would …
Compulsory vaccination and the National Socialists
Noticing some social-media discussion by opponents of compulsory vaccinations, noting that even Adolph Hitler opposed them. A pair of quick nuance-y corrections, one on extent and one on motivation. Extent: AH favored compulsory vaccinations—but only for Germans. Motivation: He opposed them for non-Germans because he didn’t want to extend their benefits to people he didn’t …
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January 27, 2023
The constant decline of civilization?
Reprising this series of quotations, collected over the years, on the theme of pessimism about the present in relation to the past: Plato, 360 BCE: “In that country [Egypt] arithmetical games have been invented for the use of mere children, which they learn as pleasure and amusement. I have late in life heard with amazement …
January 26, 2023
John and John on liberal psychology
Locke and Mill, that is. Locke on freedom of choice for students: “great care is to be taken, that [education] be never made as a business to him, nor he look on it as a task. We naturally, as I said, even from our cradles, love liberty, and have therefore an aversion to many things, …
January 24, 2023
Franz Schubert’s early death
Reprising this post about the early death of Franz Schubert, the great lyrical composer of the early nineteenth century. He died at age 31. While his music is usually too melancholy for my taste, what a sadness. Franz was lucky to get that many years. Biographer Christoper Gibbs reports that Schubert’s parents had fourteen children …
“Sanction of the Victim” with Stephen Hicks and David Kelley
Join Senior Scholar Stephen Hicks, Ph.D. and Atlas Society founder David Kelley, Ph.D., on Wednesday, February 1 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special 90-minute exploration and discussion on Ayn Rand’s theme of the sanction of the victim and how evil often feeds off of people trying to be good. Register here: Sanction …
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January 23, 2023
My review of Frey’s *America’s Economic Moralists*
My review essay on Donald Frey’s America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics (State University of New York Press) was published in Business Ethics Quarterly. Subscribers to BEQ can access the issue here. Or my author-read audio version is at YouTube. My conclusion: “America’s Economic Moralists is a good historical survey of …
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