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September 23, 2022
Liberalism: Pro & Con* en Español coming soon
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 …
September 22, 2022
Bertrand Russell: Education versus Free Thought
Almost 100 years ago, the philosopher was worried: “We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.” Source: Bertrand Russell, “Free Thought and Official Propaganda,” Chapter 12 of Sceptical Essays (1928), p. 136. Russell used examples from America (bad), Japan (bad), and …
September 21, 2022
El Sexismo y el Racismo Disminuyen Bajo el Capitalismo [*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. Argumento 12: El sexismo y el racismo …
September 20, 2022
Review of David Kelley’s *Evidence of the Senses* by Stephen Hicks [In Case You Missed It]
Related: Critique of Pure Reason | Immanuel Kant | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks
September 19, 2022
“Kroisos,” 540-515 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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September 18, 2022
My Wikipedia page updated: debates and a criticism
Additions to the page include recent publications, a debates section, and a new-to-me criticism of my Explaining Postmodernism by sociology lecturer Matt McManus, who takes issue with my use of a quotation from Lyotard’s Postmodern Fables. (The quotation in question and my take on it can be read here.) Related: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism …
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Was Nietzsche individualist? Zarathustra-overman version
Friedrich Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. But note this from his Thus Spoke Zarathustra: “The overman is the sense of the earth … . I love those who sacrifice themselves for the earth, that the earth may some day become the overman’s.” (Z I.P.3). So: Contrary to individualism, your life is not …
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September 17, 2022
Urination and Self-expression in the Arts
The cartoon is a wry commentary on some modernist performances. Why have so many modernists and postmodernists been pre-occupied with urine and feces? If art is about expressing oneself, what kind of self are such artists expressing? Or if art is a window into the artist’s soul, what kind of souls are being exposed here? …
Speaking at The Atlas Society 2022 Gala
I will be participating in two talks/panels at this gala event in California’s glamorous Calamigos Ranch, just outside Malibu. The evening celebration will honor entrepreneur Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy, and the day events will include discussions by philosopher David Kelley, economist Richard Salsman, philosopher Jason Hill, and political commentator Robert Tracinski. You are cordially invited …
September 16, 2022
Lyotard channeling Lenin
In Chapter 5 of Postmodern Fables (University of Minnesota Press, 1997), Jean-François Lyotard writes this about the Iraqi dictatorship: “Saddam Hussein is a product of Western departments of state and big companies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco were born of the ‘peace’ imposed on their countries by the victors of the Great War. Saddam …
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