“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 Equality and justice 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
“Our four figures, by contrast, voiced themes of strong collectivism in ethics and politics with calls for individuals to sacrifice for society,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Philosophy Copy Share Image
“The implication is that logical or mathematical proofs cuts no ice in adjudicating competing claims of fact.[101] Analytic propositions “are entirely devoid… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Happiness 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
“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 Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
“Included in the Totalitarian/Killed by Own Government cell are the 10 to 12 million human beings killed by the German National Socialists… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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
“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
“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
“As Nietzsche noted in Daybreak: When some men fail to accomplish what they desire to do they exclaim angrily, “May the whole… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Good morning Copy Share Image
“In postmodern discourse, truth is rejected explicitly and consistency can be a rare phenomenon. Consider the following pairs of claims. On the… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Political correctness Copy Share Image
“It is also understandable that in such a context the National Socialists would score their first big successes among the university students.… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Copy Share Image
“Communist governments account for 110 million of these deaths. Source: Rummel 1994.” — Stephen R.C. Hicks Death 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
“Consider three more examples, this time of clashes between postmodernist theory and historical fact. Postmodernists say that the West is deeply racist,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks First time 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 Science 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 Life 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 Copy Share Image
“As it became impossible to believe in the morality of the Soviet Union, a shrinking contingent of true believers shifted their devotions,… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Religion Copy Share Image
“The best portrait of this psychology comes from that very dead, very white European male: William Shakespeare, in his Othello. Iago just… — Stephen R.C. Hicks Psychology 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 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 Copy Share Image
“Socialists have generally been willing to grant that possibly, just possibly, capitalist economic production would outstrip socialist production. But no socialist has… — Stephen R.C. Hicks 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
