Dr Stephan Hicks

EP #51 | Would Immortality Be Worth It

July 27, 2021 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP #51 | Would Immortality Be Worth It

Even though we humans have lots of knowledge, we do not necessarily have a good and full theory of knowledge. Yet we should not let the lack of a good theory, deny the existence of what the theory should be explaining.
Humans have cognitive faculties with limitations. One can form snap judgments, but one can also recognize and pursue the objective principle of viewing as many perspectives as is necessary. One learns about one’s cognitive limitations over time, so one learns that to make a judgment about something beyond one’s immediate cognitive limitation, one needs to do extra work.

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EP #12  | Being The Entrepreneur of Your Life

February 11, 2019 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP #12  | Being The Entrepreneur of Your Life

It can seem like entrepreneurs are a breed apart. But they’re not. All of us are born with the ability to take risks, think creatively and challenge the everyday way of doing things. That is to say, we’re all born with the entrepreneurial capacity.

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EP #8 | Love Canal

December 18, 2018 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP #8 | Love Canal

Did government contribute to one of America’s greatest environmental disasters? What is eminent domain? Were any politicians or government officials prosecuted for criminal neglect?

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EP #6 | Nietzsche’s Sister and The Will to Power

November 20, 2018 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP #6 | Nietzsche’s Sister and The Will to Power

The story of the The Will to Power has the makings of a dramatic documentary film. It has a tormented genius, Friedrich Nietzsche, already recognized as one of the great minds of his generation, but forced to retire early for health problems. Living an itinerant life wandering Europe on a meager pension, he nonetheless working vigorously on his iconoclastic philosophy, to culminate in a work he suggested would be his greatest. But he collapses on the streets of Turin — only 44 years old — losing his mental faculties and most of his grip on reality. It’s speculated that he caught syphilis from consorting with prostitutes, but more likely he has a slow-developing brain tumor. Nonetheless, the damaged philosopher is confined to an institution for the last decade of his life. But what of his final work, the unfinished manuscript he’d been working on — maybe his magnum opus? What would be its fate?

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EP#5 | Conservatives Get Out of The Dark Ages

November 12, 2018 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP#5 | Conservatives Get Out of The Dark Ages

It’s a faux pas in some intellectual circles — mostly conservative ones — to say that there was a Dark Ages in European history.
But the mainstream view has been that the Middle Ages were a dark period in Western history. What were the “Middle Ages” in the middle of? Between the Greco-Roman era and the Renaissance. Roughly a millennium. The evaluative claim is that the glories of Greece and Rome and the achievements of the Renaissance and early Modernity were outstanding. By contrast, the Middle Ages look dimmer or actually dark.

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EP #2 | Violent Politics: Lesson of Marxist Philosophy

October 23, 2018 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP #2 | Violent Politics: Lesson of Marxist Philosophy

Our topic is the long history of violent far-left, especially Marxist, activism. Is it a coincidental that so much brutality emerged from Marx-inspired activists? Or is it accidental by-product of well-intentioned theory? Or is it a necessary and intended consequence of its principles? Leon Trotsky on Joseph Stalin in 1940: “Under all conditions well-organized violence seems to him the shortest distance between two points.” Not just what the Marxist theoreticians and politicians said, what they did. A large number of intellectuals in the West, are aware of the atrocities but accept on them. Why?

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EP#3 | Conservatives Are Not Free-Market Capitalists

October 23, 2018 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP#3 | Conservatives Are Not Free-Market Capitalists

Political labeling is often sloppy and political movements are often big tent, but it’s important to keep up the effort to be precise so we know what each other is talking about. Precision is also important because sometimes those who accept some free-market policies do so for political expediency reasons, and that superficial acceptance can mask more fundamental suspicions or rejections of free markets.

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EP #1 – Free Speech; Why The Philosophy Matters

October 15, 2018 admin Open College with Dr. Stephen Hicks Comments Off on EP #1 – Free Speech; Why The Philosophy Matters

Humans are smart beings — or potentially smart. Not instinctual or passive creatures. Active engagement and deep thinking. Life goals and strategy. Lots of information. Lots of experiment. And do it yourself.
Extend that socially to meaningful relationships. Shared values. Degrees of intimacy from business acquaintances to friends to lovers and life partners. In common, all depend on exchange of info, genuine communication. Context of trust, respect, and freedom. When disagreements arise, at least initial benefit of the doubt, willingness to hear out the other side, nuanced judgment that takes all the available information into account.
Major part of what education should instill.

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