Welcome to our first discussion on Logocentric! Joining us today is Dr. Stephen R. C. Hicks.

Dr. Hicks and I discuss Nietzsche's philosophy and its relation to critical theory, as well as its relation to entrepreneurs, collectivism, and critical theory. We also discuss figures like Kant, #Rousseau, Freud, Marcuse, and Marx and their philosophies relationship to modern socialist activist's philosophies that it expounds.

Dr. Stephen Hicks is:
-Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University
-Executive Director at the Center for Ethics & Entrepreneurship
-Senior Scholar at The Atlas Society
-Author of Explaining Postmodernism & Nietzsche and the Nazis

Website: http://www.stephenhicks.org
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/SRCHicks (@SRCHicks)
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Explaining Postmodernism: https://www.amazon.com/Explaining-Pos...
Nietzsche and the Nazis: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...

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As some of you have noticed...I haven't posted an episode in a while. I've committed to making my other entrepreneurial ventures work a little bit more before I start making regular episodes again.

Twitter has been really unhealthy and stopping my productivity. So I will mostly be posting on here and thinkspot.

So if you're here and you enjoy the conversations I've had, I'm so grateful for you being here, and don't worry I'm not finished. Just taking a productive break until I can get an awesome guest on here for you all!

On my recent video, I was lambasted for my alleged privilege and dismissal of anti racism.

I got to thinking what role privilege actually plays between people in a society.

I think really the “privilege doctrine” could be summarized as viewing people’s ability to move up the social latter as racially determined in a given culture. Where the majority demographic is viewed as preventing the minority demographic from climbing the social latter due to in-group preference.

If you’re white, then you’re “privilege” as a white person would mean that you have a given head start because you’re in a society that allegedly caters to white people, and any race outside that is viewed as marginalized, victimized, or oppressed groups.

I don’t think this ideology really explains why there are disparities between races on certain levels of measurement. However, to by-default assume that disparities equal discrimination is to fall prey to the correlation equals causation fallacy. Which this ideology seems to ...

New podcast on the difference between liberalism and anti-racism goes live tomorrow!!

• Liberalism is not the same thing as wokeness/antiracism.

• Wokeness/Antiracism is not the same thing as progressivism.

• Liberalism puts the individual identity as the prime focus of people's identity.

  • Philosopher John Locke is often credited with founding liberalism as a distinct tradition, based on the social contract, arguing that each person has a natural right to life, liberty and property and governments must not violate these rights.

• Wokeness/Antiracism puts a collective identity as the prime focus of people's identity.

  • Anti-racism is a form of action against systemic racism and the oppression of marginalized groups. People can act against racism by acknowledging personal privileges, confronting acts of racial discrimination, and working to change personal racial biases.

• Liberalism believes in civil liberties based on individual rights, democratic republics, and free enterprise....