Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
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My graduate student essay: Aquinas on Logic
I wrote this essay as a graduate student taking a Mediaeval Philosophy course from Professor Paul Vincent Spade (Ph.D., Toronto) in 1988. I recently re-read it with some nostalgia and some pleasure. It won me the award for best graduate student essay that year, but I make no…
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“Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” [Audio-book version, Part 2]
Part Two: On Egoism [MP3] [YouTube] [36 minutes] Rand’s egoismNietzsche’s rhetoric and systemThe Major Differences between Nietzsche and Rand Are individuals real? Do individuals have free will? What is the source of moral values? How does the self identify its nature and…
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“Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand” [Audio-book version, Part 2]
Part Two: On Egoism [MP3] [YouTube] [36 minutes] Rand’s egoismNietzsche’s rhetoric and systemThe Major Differences between Nietzsche and Rand Are individuals real? Do individuals have free will? What is the source of moral values? How does the self identify its nature and…
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Tocqueville on “insatiable” equality and the cruelty of democracy to some of its members
Why democratic society is ‘cruel’ to some of its members: Aristocratic society makes people believe their circumstances are inherited destiny and so cannot be helped. But democratic societies encourage people to believe that their destinies depend on their own actions. For…
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PANGBURN’S SYMPOSIUM I: Two-day event in San Francisco, featuring Stephen Hicks, Steven Pinker, Justin Sledge, and Steven Bonnell. PHILOSOPHY • SCIENCE • RELIGION • POLITICS.
“In the spirit of ancient Athens, where the greatest minds gathered to question the gods, challenge the powerful, and pursue the nature of truth, a new symposium rises. “Four disciplines. Four extraordinary minds. Two days. One relentless pursuit of truth.“ From the marble halls…
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Canadian Wire interview on misreadings of postmodernism
I was on the Canadian Wire program with co-hosts Will Horton and Matt Daco, to discuss what the postmoderns got right, misreadings of postmodernism, and the current state of the culture wars.Topics and times:00:30 Who is Stephen Hicks?03:30 From civil engineering to logic and…
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Explaining Postmodernism — first edition text free online
My 10-year publishing agreement with Ockham’s Razor Publishing has ended. ORM published the expanded edition from 2010-2015 and then from 2015 to 2025. Prior to that, Scholargy published the first edition from 2004 to 2009. We’re thinking about a 25th Anniversary edition, with…
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Philosophy’s longest sentences (another Kant entry)
I’ve been running an informal contest to find the longest sentence ever written by a philosopher. Chelsea, a reader from the U.K., sends us this phenomenal 174-word sentence from the Critique of Pure Reason (B158-159, Guyer translation): “Just as for the cognition of an object…
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Philosophy’s longest sentences (another Kant entry)
I’ve been running an informal contest to find the longest sentence ever written by a philosopher. Chelsea, a reader from the U.K., sends us this phenomenal 174-word sentence from the Critique of Pure Reason (B158-159, Guyer translation): “Just as for the cognition of an object…
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Two talks in Madrid, Spain, this week
In connection with my new book, I will be in Madrid this week and giving two university talks: * Tuesday, September 22: Universidad Francisco Marroquín (7 pm) * Wednesday, September 23: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (5:30 pm)
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Lecture in Porto, Portugal: “The Illiberal Right’s Gurus”
This week I will be in Portugal to speak on the philosophers of the new illiberal right: “Intellectually, the illiberal left are on the defensive. Yet we face a disquieting rise of illiberal right/conservative movements. Who is influential among them and why? Professor Hicks…
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My new book: *Lectures in Philosophy of Politics*
Lecciones de Filosofía Política: Vol I: De la Revolución francesa a la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Spanish Edition published in Madrid by Publicaciones del Orden Espontáneo. Translated by Professor Gustavo Morales Alsona. Prologue by Professor Miguel Anxo Bastos. Las grandes…
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Men: How to cure yourself of women
St. Benedict (500s), according to St. Gregory: “Benedict fought valiantly to forget the woman ‘the memory of whom the wicked spirit put into his mind, and by that memory so mightily inflamed with concupiscence the soul of God’s servant … that, almost overcome with pleasure, he…
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German National Socialism: Heidegger and Orwell quotations
On National Socialism, quotations from leading intellectuals. First, what kind of socialism did the National Socialists want? In the 1920s, they were influenced by Oswald Spengler and Moeller van den Bruck. In the 1930s, their top philosopher: Link to text of Heidegger’s speech…
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Best Insults in History
1. “He had delusions of adequacy. “ — Walter Kerr 2. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.“ — Winston Churchill3. “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.“ — Clarence Darrow4. “He has never been known to use a…
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The Golden Rule and moral rules of thumb
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Sounds plausible … but what if you’re a masochist? As a masochist, you would have people beat and humiliate you. So … Or suppose you have a troublesome colleague, and on some days you just wish someone would smack some sense…
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The Golden Rule and moral rules of thumb
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Sounds plausible … but what if you’re a masochist? As a masochist, you would have people beat and humiliate you. So … Or suppose you have a troublesome colleague, and on some days you just wish someone would smack some sense…
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*Philosophy of Politics* introductory lecture free online
Free sample lecture from my Philosophy of Politics course. Starting with why philosophy matters to politics, the French Revolution, and Edmund Burke’s influential interpretation. Full course available here, along with its complementary Part 2. My other courses available here:…
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Life’s purpose after AI?
We see variations of this question: What happens when robots can do anything physical better than humans and AI can do anything cognitive better than any humans? What will be left for us? The answer is: Live your life as the human being you are. The better-than-me circumstance…
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Arday and downstream postmodernism
Two factors about the long reach of skeptical philosophy and its practical results. Social construction of reality: If influential philosophers teach that “reality” is merely a social construct, then what happens to us in the next, taught generation? We focus primarily on the…