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From Stephen Hicks' book, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault: Any intellectual movement is defined by its fundamental philosophical premises. Those premises state what it takes to be real, what it is to be human, what is valuable, and how knowledge is acquired. That is, any intellectual movement has a metaphysics, a conception of human nature and values, and an epistemology. . . Metaphysically, postmodernism is anti-realist,

Our major debates over politics and science are primarily debates about ethics. Progress and Polarization: Are things getting better or worse? The Whiteside Forum opens its 2022-2023 season on Sunday October 30, 2022 hosting Dr. Stephen Hicks who will speak to “Ethics and Current Ideological Movements,” starting at 2:00pm in the Community Room of the Odell Public Library at 307 S. Madison St. Morrison, IL. All Forum events are open to the public and free of charge due to the generosity of many individual donors. This is your (rare) opportunity to hear a different perspective and to ask ...

Mystical Marxism Cannot Sweep Traitorous American Democrats Into Utopian Paradise, Cowering Biden Admin Exposes Failure of Socialism as Ukraine Errors Threaten WWIII

Mystical Marxism Cannot Sweep Traitorous American Democrats Into Utopian Paradise, Cowering Biden Admin Exposes Failure of Socialism as Ukraine Errors Threaten WWIII

Why Postmodernism Is Incompatible with a Politics of Liberty Postmodernism lends itself to totalitarianism Once beliefs aren't constrained by the object world, an idea can't be wrong, and the intellectual battleground becomes a political one, a struggle to impose certain ideas on all Image Credit: Email The proposition debated was “Postmodern philosophy is compatible with a politics of individual liberty.” Thaddeus defended the proposition and I opposed it. Here, I want to flesh out some of the points I made in the debate, adding more context than I could marshal under the constraints of ...