Anita Toutikian PhD

25/04/2026

18/07/2024

If we cannot know reality, then painting it becomes naive.

Stephen Hicks interview on Kant and Modern Art — transcript of the Norway interview Leave a Comment / Philosophy / By Stephen Hicks Immanuel Kant is arguably the most influential philosopher in the last two centuries. But how could the strict Kant have anything to do with the often-nihilistic mode...

17/07/2024

In a 1946 essay in the London Tribune entitled “In Front of Your Nose,” George Orwell noted that “we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.”

The roots of the current campus madness