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Michael Newberry | Thoughts on Key Works of Art in History

In this series of 29 short videos, the artist Michael Newberry discusses the meaning and importance of key works in the history of art and sculpture. 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 …

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Más Individuos Sobresalientes Florecen Bajo el Capitalismo Liberal [*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 8: Más individuos sobresalientes florecen bajo …

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Rockford University professor Stephen Hicks’s advice to new students

The hard part about writing about education can be getting past all of the clichés. Excellence. Truth. Honor. Tradition. The Future. Yet those words do capture essential aspirations for education, especially for those of us at the kind of college Rockford is and can be. I want to focus here on excellence. All of my …

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“Ask Me Anything About Ethics” with Stephen Hicks

Join our Senior Scholar, Dr. Stephen Hicks Wednesday, September 7 @ 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET for a special “Ask Me Anything” event when Dr. Hicks will be answering your questions on philosophy, ethics and questions from our 66K Instagram followers. Not yet on Clubhouse, and interested to check it out? Use this link HERE to get onto the platform, …

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Good teaching advice from Paul Bloom

A good, informal list: https://paulbloom.net/TeachingAdvice.pdf.

Dewey: philosophy is a social-emotional after-the-fact enterprise

I’m having a trip down memory lane, having come across my grad-school notes on John Dewey’s 1920 Reconstruction in Philosophy. Yes, personal computers had been invented by then, but I was in transition from my old-style card-catalogue method. In part these caught my attention as I am preparing for my upcoming lecture on Dewey for …

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Right privilege

This one is true: “Activist lectures U. North Carolina students about ‘right-handed privilege’“. And I am a victim. Reparations checks will be accepted.

Was Nietzsche really individualist? Post-Socrates version

Nietzsche has a reputation for being an individualist. Yet frequently Nietzsche rejects individualism and elements that go into a full account of individual. For example, note this from his The Struggle Between Science and Wisdom: “Beginning with Socrates, the individual all at once began to take himself too seriously” (SSW 132). Nietzsche’s sometimes-yes-sometimes-not individualism is …

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Quantifying Wokeness

The long march through the institutions in graphs. Check out series by data scientist David Rozado series on Twitter, especially the updated graphs posted in August 2022. * First, academic postmodernism’s high theory is developed in the late 1950s and into the 1960s, especially in philosophy. * Second, it spreads through other humanities fields (Literature, …

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Sexual Misconduct by Teachers and other Public School Employees

This report by Charol Shakeshaft of Hofstra University. Some excerpted tables: Contrast: A report on Catholic priests found that “about 4 percent of the 110,000 priests active during those years [1950-2002] had been accused of sexual misconduct involving children” (Source; also here).