Stephen R. C. Hicks
@SRCHicks
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Philosophy, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship
USA
Joined July 2009
Lecture 3: "The RENAISSANCE IDEAL" Themes: The Toledo School. Aquinas and integrating Aristotle and Christianity. The Summa's method. Scholastics, Humanists, and Protestants (Calvin, Luther). Is it a sin to read the Bible? Tyndale and Servetus. Michelangelo, Da Vinci. Core
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William Horton on applying Foucault's postmodernism to itself. https://t.co/6tARrAGc0o
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Poststructuralism as a Regime of Truth: Foucault and the Paradox of Philosophical Authority Articles %
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Three recomended Logic books, on their own or as supplements to my online course on Logic: https://t.co/2JYz3rPvGp
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Me: Many, many more billionaires should exist. Most potential great wealth creators are stifled in their youth by bad schools and parents, or by an anti-wealth culture and politics.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist.
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In two weeks I will be in Phoenix, Arizona, to live-record two new courses: * Business Ethics Leadership * Introduction to Metaphysics & Epistemology Studio audience invitation for those interested in attending in person. Sign-up is here: https://t.co/oK57hG6iHg
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Lovely.
What it's all about. 💜🥹 Prof. Joel Mokyr, winner of the @NobelPrize in Economic Sciences, shares a lovely message from a former student.
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Piggy-backing on the above. The opening lecture of *Modern Philosophy* is devoted to Bacon's revolution: https://t.co/vAzjyc4kdG
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Mokyr's key insight that one needs more than inventions that work—one needs a *culture* of knowledge-seeking, innovation, progress. Note the abstract from his now-classic 2005 paper, pointing us from the Industrial Revolution to the broader Enlightenment culture within which it
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Phenomenal—still the best Philosophy headline in recent times.
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ENLIGHTENMENT FAILED? Interviewed on the Philosophy Everyday podcast. Four topics: 1. How the Enlightenment reshaped philosophy, science, and morality 2. Kant's complex relationship with the Enlightenment 3. The rise of Romanticism and the return of emotion over logic 4. How
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Make yourself a lean, mean, thinking machine. Trailer for my new LOGIC course is here: https://t.co/XSNn6yEtAs
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"WHAT IS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION? From PLATO to AUGUSTINE." Lecture 2 of *Philosophy of Education* Themes: Plato’s Myths of the Cave and of Gyges. The quarrel between Philosophy and Poetry. Rome captures Greece — but the Greeks conquer Rome. Christianity institutionalized.
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@SRCHicks This is a great book; we do not have it in spanish -as far as we know in @traslaidentidad- but Professor Hicks had time for us an de we’re gratefull. // Un gran libro que no tenemos en español pero el Profesor Hicks nos atendió para hablar de él y les estaremos siempre
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No: the separation was bi-directional — politicians were not use religion as a political tool, and the religious were not to use politics as a religious tool. E.g., this from Locke's famous 1689 Letter on separating Church and State: “The boundaries on both sides are fixed and
Separation of church and state was originally intended to keep the state out of the church’s business, not the other way around.
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Now released. Trailer for my LOGIC course.
Professor Stephen Hicks’ ten-hour course: Logic, is available now. In this course, @SRCHicks guides us through the principles and real-world applications of reasoning—from foundational concepts to advanced logical systems. We explore argument structure, concept formation,
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