| 2005 Summer Seminar |
—Stephen Hicks
Course Description:
Friedrich Nietzsche and Ayn Rand share an exalted sense of human potential—and a set of philosophical enemies: Plato, Augustine, and Kant. But in their mature ethical theories, how close are Nietzsche’s and Rand’s positions? In these two lectures, Stephen Hicks, Professor of Philosophy at Rockford College, will put Nietzsche’s and Rand’s ethical theories in philosophical context and note some similarities between the two—and the many striking and fundamental differences.
Stephen Hicks has been Visiting Professor of Business Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a Visiting Fellow at the Social Philosophy & Policy Center in Bowling Green, Ohio, a Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., and Senior Fellow at The Objectivist Center. There, he drafted his new book, Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (2004: Scholargy Publishing). More information about Dr. Hicks can be found at his website. Of special note for this audience are his essay “Ayn Rand and Contemporary Business Ethics,” published in the Journal of Accounting, Ethics, and Public Policy, and his article on Ayn Rand for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Schedule: Monday, 9:45 - 11:00 AM
Track: Philosophy