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    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is famous for his statement that “God is dead” — and for the fact that Adolf Hitler and the Nazis claimed Nietzsche as one of their great inspirations. * Were the Nazis right to do so — or did they misappropriate Nietzsche’s philosophy? * What were the key elements of Hitler and the National Socialists’ political philosophy? * How did the Nazis come to power in a nation as educated and civilized as Germany? * What was Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy — the philoso…Read more
  •  90
    Egoism in Nietzsche and Rand
    Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 10 (2). 2009.
    Philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand are often identified as strong critics of altruism and arch advocates of egoism. In this essay, Stephen Hicks argues that Nietzsche and Rand have much in common in their critiques of altruism but almost nothing in common in their views on egoism
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    Teaching Philosophy to High School Students
    with Monica Holland
    Teaching Philosophy 12 (2): 115-130. 1989.
    A week-long, intensive introduction to philosophy during the summer. The program's content, methods, and results.
  •  41
    The Ethics of Outside Funding
    Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society 19 529-533. 2008.
    BB&T’s initiative to fund programs on the moral foundations of capitalism is evaluated by reference to the criteria of academic freedom, integrity, and philosopher-novelist Ayn Rand’s status as an intellectual.
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    Ethics and Business (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 33 (2): 212-216. 2010.
  •  32
    Corporations in the Moral Community (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 15 (4): 395-397. 1992.
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    The Contents of Experience (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 47 (4): 803-804. 1994.
    Crane's volume collects nine essays ranging over an impressive number of fundamental problems of perception. One unique feature of this volume is captured in Crane's hope that "some of the essays in this volume show that there is much that is worth recovering from the sense-data tradition".
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    Ayn Rand
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2002.
  •  16
    What Business Ethics Can Learn from Entrepreneurship
    Journal of Private Enterprise 24 (2): 49-57. 2009.
    Entrepreneurship is increasingly studied as a fundamental and foundational economic phenomenon. It has, however, received less attention as an ethical phenomenon. Much contemporary business ethics assumes its core application purposes to be (1) to stop predatory business practices and (2) to encourage philanthropy and charity by business. Certainly predation is immoral and charity has a place in ethics, neither should be the first concerns of ethics. Instead, business ethics should make fundamen…Read more
  •  13
    Business Practice: Applied Moral Philosophy (review)
    Journal of Ayn Rand Studies 4 (2). 2003.
    Hicks reviews Ayn Rand and Business. He argues that management professors Donna Greiner and Theodore Kinni have written a fine, short volume integrating Ayn Rand's moral theory with management theory and practice. This book will be useful to professionals seeking an introduction to the relevance of Objectivism's ethics to successful business practice
  •  8
    Ethics and Business (review)
    Teaching Philosophy 33 (2): 212-216. 2010.
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    Foundationalism and the Genesis of Justification
    Dissertation, Indiana University. 1992.
    This thesis presents a type foundationalism that is new on two counts. First, traditional foundationalists hold that because of perceptual relativity, illusions, and the standard skeptical arguments, external world propositions can be justified only indirectly by means of subjective states or propositions. By setting aside skepticism as wrong in principle and by arguing that perceptual illusions and relativity are compatible with perceptual direct realism, a nonrepresentationalist account of jus…Read more
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    Rand, Ayn
    Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2017.
    Ayn Rand was a major intellectual of the twentieth century. Born in Russia in 1905 and educated there, she emigrated to the United States after graduating from university. Upon becoming proficient in English and establishing herself as a writer of fiction, she became well-known as a passionate advocate of a philosophy she … Continue reading Rand, Ayn →
  •  1
    America’s Economic Moralists (review)
    Business Ethics Quarterly 22 (1): 186-193. 2012.
  • Tara Smith, Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics: The Virtuous Egoist
    Philosophy in Review 27 (5): 377. 2007.
    Tara Smith's book on Rand's ethics is reviewed by Stephen Hicks for *Philosophy in Review.*
  • Sam Harris (edited book)
    Open Universe. 2023.
    Sam Harris, a previously unknown neuroscientist, single-handedly generated the New Atheism with his best-selling book The End of Faith, which quickly became a huge best-seller following its release in 2004. Harris went on to write several more best-sellers on a range of topics and has become one of the world's most followed podcasters. He is well-known for his controversial positions in many areas, including the unique danger of Islam, the advocacy of atheist spirituality through meditation, the…Read more