Stephen R. C. Hicks
@SRCHicks
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Philosophy, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship
USA
Joined July 2009
"Stalin used to call all of us cogs. One cog does not differ from another, and cogs can easily replace one another." Musician Dmitri Shostakovich on why so many mediocrities rose to cultural prominence under Soviet socialism. More here:
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Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin believes: 1. Orthodox Christianity’s the best religion, 2. Martin Heidegger’s is the best philosophy. What if one combines them? My overview of Dugin's evolving philosophy, given as a lecture in Poland: "IS DUGIN FASCIST, NEO-MARXIST, or
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Since it's being discussed in certain corners of X, let me say this clearly & unequivocally: Classical liberalism has nothing to do with 20th-century, Progressive liberalism. The latter totally rejects the economics, politics, ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics of the former,
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A modicum of cautious optimism for (real) liberalism. Daniel Rothschild on where we are after a century of narrowly defeating one illiberalism after another. https://t.co/KERRhFiioL
lawliberty.org
The ideas driving the rise of illiberalism aren’t good—but they’re not particularly new, either.
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My essay on “Why Art became Ugly” translated into Brazilian Portuguese. The image below is de Kooning's modernist statement on the feminine: Woman I. Context and my explanation: https://t.co/LjAqrXmYd3
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Trouble at Wikipedia. Internal house-cleaning needed.
WIKIPEDIA EXPOSÉ 🔴 Inside the Network of Editors Quietly Shaping Wikipedia’s Middle East Narrative Wikipedia, one of the world’s most influential information platforms and a primary source for Google search results and artificial intelligence systems, is facing heightened
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Darkly comic.
The Australian Academy of the Humanities hosted a symposium on academic freedom. But instead of real debate, the event was full of virtue signalling, vague talk, and speakers who dodged the actual issues. Philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith (@aytchellesse) attended the symposium,
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My podcast on the American westward expansion. Choice? Destiny? Justified?
Open College #26 Manifest Destiny Wasn't https://t.co/StKmoZiuv0
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Education reform in Argentina: thread with key points. Now in committee in draft form, to be sent by President Milei to Congress.
1/5. School Vouchers for EVERY family ✅ You choose the school, the curriculum, the values... The money follows the kid, not the bureaucracy. ✅ Competition forces every school to improve or die. ✅ Poor families finally escape failing public schools in violent neighborhoods.
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Professor Tibor Rutar falsifies the "false consciousness" dodge used by some failed ideologies to explain away their failures. https://t.co/we9dqWOTnn
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German philosophy in pre-World-War-II Japan. Cross-cultural connections to authoritarian politics. https://t.co/RB3faAMfb0
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Thomas Kuhn argues that scientists are less-than-objective and more "like the typical character of Orwell’s 1984." ON THE OBJECTIVITY OF SCIENCE: KARL POPPER and THOMAS KUHN. Lecture 5 of *Postmodern Philosophy* course. Trailer and course access here: https://t.co/PZZ11gF1q1
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Data: eastern Europe before and after communist socialism.
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"ENTREPRENEURIAL EDUCATION: From MONTESSORI to the FUTURE." Lecture 8 of *Philosophy of Education* Themes: Our entrepreneurial age. Montessori. Learning as play. AI and Robotics as opportunity. Entrepreneurism as one's comparative advantage. https://t.co/Q09172wwr8
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