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September 25, 2022
Mao: “Death has benefits; fertilizer is created.”
In 1958, speaking of Chinese socialism’s decade of failed production quotas and the nastiness of its power-struggle schisms, Mao Zedong said this: “Death has benefits; fertilizer is created.” Switching to the second-person voice, Mao then said that you should embrace this: “You must be mentally prepared.” And then combining an inevitability claim with an end-justifies-the-means …
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September 24, 2022
Professor Piotr Kostyło reviews *Nietzsche and the Nazis*
Do We Know What We Advocate? Stephen Hicks’s Defence of Individualism By Professor Piotr Kostyło Piotr Kostyło is Head of the Department of Philosophy of Education at Kasimir the Great University in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The forty-five years of communism in Poland (1944-1989) were marked by the government reminding society of the atrocities committed during World …
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September 23, 2022
No academic freedom for teachers and professors in Florida state schools
So argues the state in this anti-Woke/CRT legal challenge. See pages 2 and 3, to begin: Two days ago, Professor Jason Hill and I discussed this very issue, starting at the 31-minute mark: How do advocates of the free society handle the in-principle conflict in state-funded education between (a) the government is paying, He-who-pays-the-piper-calls-the-tune, and …
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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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