Ep 15 | Dr. Stephen Hicks | The Glenn Beck Podcast

The Glenn Beck Program

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 25.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Glenn sits down with Dr. Stephen Hicks, who is a Philosophy professor at Rockford University and directs the Center for Ethics and Entrepreneurship. In this episode, they discuss the real definitions and differences between capitalism and socialism as well as the morality behind them. Stephen also explains postmodernism and its ever-growing presence in our society. They also cover topics: philosophy of Existentialism by means of Friedrich Nietzsche’s claim that God is dead, reflection on the rise of science, the decline of religion in the modern world, and the early-twentieth-century lived experience of world war, Depression, and the Holocaust. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me start with questions that I don't think the average American can give you a good
0:22.6	answer on.
0:24.1	Three of them.
0:26.1	All right.
0:26.9	What socialism?
0:29.9	I mean, you answered that.
0:31.9	Well, socialism is partly an ethos.
0:35.9	Partly it's a politics.
0:38.1	The ethos is that you belong to a social unit, not an individual self, that your allegiance
0:48.8	your values and in some cases your identity comes from being a part of that social unit.
0:55.6	Politically far as the pure socialism goes far as anthem or we.
1:05.5	Oh, yeah, absolutely.
1:07.3	Yes, that's right.
1:08.5	Yeah, that you are born into a social unit.
1:12.1	You are shaped by that social unit.
1:13.9	In your cog.
1:14.9	Well, you can be right, become a cog, absolutely.
1:17.8	And your job is to perform a function in that social unit.
1:21.4	Okay.
1:22.4	That's an ethic, but then if you politicize it, then you say whatever authorities are
1:28.7	that wield the power in that society, they can use you and direct you for social ends
1:35.8	primarily.
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