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Open College #26 Manifest Destiny Wasn't
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Douglas Murray identifies skeptical anti-realism as a problem, citing Foucault. At the 1:09:25 mark, the Canadian Wire duo asks me about the accuracy of Douglas Murray’s reading of postmodernism.
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A generation ago, campus activists said "speak truth to power." Why the fast flip? Open College looks at bootleggers, Baptists and snowflakes.
Open College | EP #32 | Bootleggers and Baptists or Snowflakes
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Does the order of the natural world point to a designer?
Open College | EP #38 | God: The "Design" Argument
Dr. Stephen Hicks weighs one of the oldest arguments for God.
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Two very different responses to Explaining Postmodernism. Which one holds up?
Open College | EP #40 | Defending Explaining Post Modernism: Cuck & Multiversity
Dr. Stephen Hicks answers both, a study in content, method and civility.
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Should a free society censor its would-be Hitlers, or does free speech have to protect even the worst ideas? Open College takes on the hardest case for free speech.
Open College | #21 Censor The Hitlers
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If God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good, why is there any evil at all?
Open College | EP #39 | God: The “Evil” Argument
Dr. Stephen Hicks on philosophy's oldest challenge to theism.
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Should a free-market business take government PPP money?
Open College | EP #41 | PPP & the Soul of Free Market Liberalism
Dr. Stephen Hicks on the moral principles behind taking pandemic relief cash.
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Does power corrupt, or does it just reveal who people already are? Open College takes on one of politics' oldest questions.
Open College | #24 Does Power Corrupt?
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Was Marxist violence an accident, or the point?
Open College #2 Violent Politics: Lesson of Marxist Philosophy
Dr. Stephen Hicks on why so much brutality came from Marx-inspired activists, and why many Western intellectuals look past it.
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Ayn Rand read Nietzsche and found the flaw in his ethics.
Open College | EP #44 | Ayn Rand’s Critique of Nietzsche’s Ethics
Dr. Stephen Hicks on where Rand and Nietzsche agree, and where they part ways.
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Reading it now? Dr. Hicks and Dr. Jordan Peterson on how the book found its readers outside academia:
#18 A Conversation with Dr. Jordan Peterson [Excerpt]
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Does partnering with the state strengthen free markets — or slowly erase them? Open College digs into PPP and liberalism's core.
Open College | EP #41 | PPP & the Soul of Free Market Liberalism
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Is postmodernism neo-Marxist? Hicks and Jordan Peterson don't fully agree.
Open College | #23 - Is Postmodernism Neo-Marxist? Yes, No & Sort Of.
Where Hicks's analysis parts ways with "Postmodern Neo-Marxism."
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Where does morality come from? Nietzsche had a dangerous answer.
Open College | EP #43 | Nietzsche’s Natural Slaves and Masters
Dr. Stephen Hicks on slave morality, master morality and why Nietzsche said to live dangerously.
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If nothing could change your mind about a philosophy, you’re holding a creed, not a philosophy.
Dr. Stephen Hicks on keeping Objectivism open.
EP63 | Open Objectivism
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“Objectivity is a myth” is itself offered as objectively true. Dr. Hicks answers it here.
The longer case, on keeping an objective philosophy open:
EP63 | Open Objectivism
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My response to the claim "Objectivity is a myth and we all just assert our subjective wills."
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Europe's coffee houses put merchants, artists and scientists at one table. Did that spark the Enlightenment? Dr. Stephen Hicks weighs the case.
Open College | #22 | Did Coffee Give Us The Enlightenment?
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A weaver challenged a goddess. Moral philosophy started there.
Open College with Dr. Stephen R.C. Hicks | EP #46 | Arachne vs. Athena - Moral Philosophy Begins
Hicks retells the myth of Arachne and Athena and the question it still poses.
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Will the robots free us, or enslave us?
Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks EP #47 | The Robots Will Free Us
Hicks on what automation and AI mean for work, business and the economy.
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