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*More Entrepreneurial Living* — 16 More Stories of Innovation, Risk, and Achievement

Entrepreneurial Living: 15 Stories of Innovation, Risk, and Achievement (and One Story of Abject Failure) Table of Contents for Volume One:

“Only a God Can Save Us” — Heidegger documentary

Jeffrey Van Davis’s documentary on Martin Heidegger’s life and thought, with interviews of leading scholars of Heidegger. See also the episode on Martin Heidegger’s “What Is Metaphysics?”, in the *Philosophers, Explained* series:

80th Anniversary of *The Fountainhead*

When I teach Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead, my focus in class is philosophical, but I point out along the way how her fiction-writer’s methods concretize, dramatize, and foreshadow her abstract themes. One of my favorite examples is based on the premise that first meetings matter in life and literature. Here are our first meetings of …

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The Philosophers You Need to Know

My ongoing series on the great philosophers, each episode devoted to a key text with my commentary.

English liberty and Mozart’s opera

Reprising this about Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio [Die Entführung aus dem Serail], which has a charming scene indicating England’s eighteenth-century reputation in Europe as a land of liberty. A woman named Konstanze and her English servant Blonde have been abducted by pirates and sold to Pasha Selim. In Act II, the Pasha’s crude overseer, …

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Giroux & Postmodernism [Education’s Villains and Heroes course]

This January 11th we will have our eighth session of the online course “Education’s Villains and Heroes”, where we will discuss Giroux’s view on Postmodernism * Reading to prepare for this session: excerpt from Border Pedagogy as Postmodern Resistance (1991). * Link to register: ZOOM. To see more of our courses and related topics, visit Atlas Intellectuals. …

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Texts in Philosophy — late 2022 additions

For use in my courses, additions to my Texts in Philosophy page. Aristotle, Books 1-4 of Nicomachean Ethics (c. 335 BCE) Alain Badiou, “The Adventure of French Philosophy” (2004). Immanuel Kant, On Education (1803). Maximilien Robespierre, The Cult of the Supreme Being (1794).

Do we need political compulsion for education? E. G. West on education and the Industrial Revolution

Reprising this from when I read E. G. West’s fascinating Education and the Industrial Revolution, which is a powerful argument for the conclusion that … well, let’s first look at some data. Here’s a table comparing school enrollments in various parts of the world with enrollments in England and Wales a century earlier. The table …

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Scrooge’s Hero’s Journey

My annual re-posting of this article, just below the link to the audio version. By Stephen R. C. Hicks The many Scrooges // Robin Hood analogy // Scrooge as villain of Socialism // as anti-Christian // as Savvy Investor // as Environmentalist // as Malthusian // as anti-Commercialization // Scrooge’s Aristotelian hero’s journey We all …

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What’s new in witchcraft

All from the twenty-first century: * Sorcerers stealing or shrinking men’s penises in Congo. * Black magic murders in Brazil. * Witches beaten and humiliated in in southern India. * God punishes Haiti for its witchcraft and other immoralities. * Though progress in Ghana: a call “for the immediate abolition of witches camps and witchcraft …

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