“Yet mere membership as a matter of duty is not enough for Hegel, given the grandeur of the state’s divine historical purpose:… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Hegel Copy Share Image
“Kunst ist Scheisse (Art is shit) was, fittingly, the motto of the Dada movement. Duchamp’s urinal was the fitting symbol. Everything is… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Art Copy Share Image
“That is my second hypothesis: Postmodernism is a response to the crisis of faith of the academic far Left. Its epistemology justifies… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Faith Copy Share Image
“Postmodernism is the first ruthlessly consistent statement of the consequences of rejecting reason, those consequences being necessary given the history of epistemology… — Stephen R.C. Hicks History Copy Share Image
“In effect, by rejecting high-tech socialism and substituting a vision of low-tech, egalitarian socialism, this new Left strategy also resolved to quote… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“A variation on this strategy was implicit in a new definition of “poverty” that the Left began to offer in the early… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Marxism was and is a class analysis, pitting economic classes against each other in a zero-sum competition. In that competition, the stronger… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Analysis Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, it is difficult to do this under contemporary living arrangements, in which children go to school and then return to corrupting… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Children Copy Share Image
“Morally and politically, in practice every liberal capitalist country has a solid record for being humane, for by and large respecting rights… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Killing people Copy Share Image
“In a “secret speech” to the twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev made a sensational revelation… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Communication Copy Share Image
“In our time, the world created by the Enlightenment is strong, active, and exuberant. For a while in the past century, socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Buddhism Copy Share Image
“The empirical evidence has been much harder on socialism. Economically, in practice the capitalist nations are increasingly productive and prosperous, with no… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Nasty political correctness as a tactic then makes perfect sense. Having rejected reason, we will not expect ourselves or others to behave… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Conflict resolution Copy Share Image
“Yet it is also true, Hegel granted, that in many cases the individual’s freedoms and interests will genuinely be set aside, overridden,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Freedom Copy Share Image
“From the postmodern anti-realist metaphysics and anti-reason epistemology, the postmodern social consequences follow almost directly. Once we set aside reality and reason,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Modernism Copy Share Image
“Deconstruction as an educational strategy Here is an example. Kate Ellis is a radical gender feminist. Ellis, as she writes in… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Affirmative action Copy Share Image
“Accordingly, postmodernism recasts the nature of rhetoric: Rhetoric is persuasion in the absence of cognition.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Modernism Copy Share Image
“Therefore, it is a combination of the two factors—widespread skepticism about reason and socialism’s being in crisis—that is necessary to give rise… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Modernism Copy Share Image
“Communist governments account for 110 million of these deaths. Source: Rummel 1994.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Death Copy Share Image
“Reason is a tool of weaklings who are afraid to be naked in the face of a cruel and conflictual reality and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Postmodernism Copy Share Image
“As the Marxist movement splintered and mutated into new forms, Left intellectuals and activists began to look for new ways to attack… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Marxist Copy Share Image
“In postmodernism we find metaphysical antirealism, epistemological subjectivity, the placing of feeling at the root of all value issues, the consequent relativism… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Knowledge Copy Share Image
“And in a remark that was prescient of the coming decade, Moeller wrote: Socialism begins where Marxism ends. German socialism is called… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“So far Fichte’s program of education includes the communal separation of children, severe authoritarian top-down training, strict moral duty and selflessness, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Children Copy Share Image
“And again, just in case we have missed Hegel’s point: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Hegel Copy Share Image
“This conclusion about perception is devastating for science: If our percepts are theory-laden, then perception is hardly a neutral and independent check… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Perception Copy Share Image
“A new ethical standard was therefore necessary. With great fanfare, then, much of the Left changed its official ethical standard from need… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“To start with, education must be egalitarian and universal, unlike previous education, which was feudal and elitist: “So there is nothing left… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Classless society Copy Share Image
“Another force to straighten the warped wood is political. Man is “an animal that, if he lives among other members of his… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Political Man Copy Share Image
“For the modern realists, consciousness is both cognitive and functional, and those two traits are integrated. The primary purpose of consciousness is… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The consequence of this, morally, is that the individual is of less significance than the state. The individual’s empirical, day-to-day interests are… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Responsibility Copy Share Image
“This explains the harsh nature of much postmodern rhetoric. The regular deployments of ad hominem, the setting up of straw men, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Ku klux klan Copy Share Image
“The dominance of subjectivist and relativistic epistemologies in academic philosophy thus provided the academic Left with a new tactic. Confronted by harsh… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Ironically, then, by the 1930s large segments of the radical Left had come to agree with what national socialists and fascists had… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
“Morally, there was the extreme disappointment at the failure of the classical socialist ideal. The great ideal of Marxism had failed to… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Failure Copy Share Image
“The contemporary Enlightenment world prides itself on its commitment to equality and justice, its open-mindedness, its making opportunity available to all, and… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“This standard Humean/Kantian dichotomy of analytic and synthetic propositions immediately yields a very problematic implication: Logical and mathematical propositions are dis-connected from… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“What is the purpose in this context of appealing to opinion and semantic relativism? The purpose is to get your opponent off… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Breathing space Copy Share Image
“Given the pervasiveness of capitalism’s domination, the revolutionary vanguard can come only from those outcast intellectuals—especially among the younger students[282]—those who are… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Freedom Copy Share Image
“Traditionally, Marxist socialism had supposed that providing adequately for human needs was a basic test of a social system’s morality. The achievement… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Capitalism Copy Share Image
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![“And again, just in case we have missed Hegel’s point: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he must dedicate himself to the ethical whole.” And again echoing Rousseau: “Hence, if the state claims life, the individual must surrender it.”[216]” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91e/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_life_and-again-just-in-case-we-have-missed-he_2668561.jpg)
![“Another force to straighten the warped wood is political. Man is “an animal that, if he lives among other members of his species, has need of a master.” And that is because “his selfish animal propensities induce him to except himself from [moral rules] wherever he can.” Kant then introduced his…” quote by Stephen R.C. Hicks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/552/stephen-r-c-hicks-12692_quote_another-force-to-straighten-the-warped-w_2941719.jpg)
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