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Stephen R. C. Hicks
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Stephen R. C. Hicks
@SRCHicks
Philosophy, Business Ethics, and Entrepreneurship
- “The only student of mine I was ever intimidated by. He was so quick. There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it is not proved and it may be difficult. Von Neumann didn't say
- I'm not a climate-change expert. Yet I'm an intelligent man who's read the news for about 40 years. I've seen this headline in various publications about once a week—i.e., about 2000 times. So a q: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don't materialize?
- "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book." - Cicero (circa 40 BCE)
- Foucault visit Iran in 1978 and praised its budding theocratic revolution as a site of resistance against the liberal-capitalist West he hoped to subvert. One reason why the usual suspects are still supporting the Iranian regime. I have a lecture on Foucault's post-modernism and
- Where slavery abolished in the modern world, from first to latest.
- On the constant doom-saying stephenhicks.org/2023/03/25/on-… Earlier I asked this question: How should a layperson process constant doomsday claims that don't materialize? I'm not a climate-change expert. Yet I'm an intelligent man who's read the news for about 40 years. I've seen ...
- Personal anecdote: I was in class at my university in Canada when it was announced that Ronald Reagan had been shot. No one cheered but my professor and several students had big smiles and were delighted at the news. I was an apolitical philosophy student at the time. Their
