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Dec 18, 2016 —
Nikita Petrov & George Young
- Does Russian thought have anything to contribute to the world?
- Nikolay Fedorov, an eccentric thinker who influenced Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky
- Fedorov’s plan: Immortality for everyone
- “Kinship” as a fundamental property of all matter
- A mass movement for the spiritual unity of humankind
- Vladimir Solovyov’s The Meaning of Love: Sexuality as a path to a Christian utopia
- Christ as the ultimate role model
TAGS Christianity | consciousness | death | evolution | history | human nature | literature | mysticism | occult | philosophy | politics | religion | science | spirituality | technology | the future | transhumanism
Dec 6, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
TAGS altruism | anger | Buddhism | cognitive science | compassion | empathy | enlightenment | ethics | human nature | meditation | moral imagination | Peter Singer | psychology | science
Dec 5, 2016 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- How do ancient and modern philosophy differ?
- Philosophy as a way of life
- How the scientific revolution changed philosophy
- Has modern ethics gone down the wrong path?
- Why did ethicists turn away from virtues and toward moral rules?
- Do universal ethical principles exist?
- What Sam Harris gets wrong about ethics
Dec 2, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Jay Michaelson
TAGS anger | Buddhism | Christianity | compassion | democracy | Donald Trump | empathy | ethics | happiness | human nature | identity | Islam | Judaism | love | meditation | mental health | mindfulness | moral imagination | politics | psychology | religion | sadness | spirituality | tribalism | Zen
Nov 14, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Daniel Kaufman
- Announcing a series of “sixty-second sermons”
- Tribalism and Trump’s success
- Apocalypse now?
- Dan vs. Bob on whether a global community is possible
- The moral dimensions of the election
- The backlash against political correctness
- What it feels like to be an outsider
- A closer look at MeaningofLife.tv’s “sermons” and other local news
TAGS democracy | Donald Trump | economics | empathy | ethics | human nature | identity | moral imagination | nationalism | perception | psychology | tribalism
Nov 13, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Keith Frankish
TAGS Buddhism | cognitive science | consciousness | ethics | evolution | human nature | memory | mind-body problem | panpsychism | perception | philosophy | psychology | self | technology
Nov 6, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Arlie Hochschild
TAGS anger | climate change | democracy | Donald Trump | economics | empathy | human nature | identity | perception | politics | psychology
Oct 26, 2016 —
Robert Wright & David Chalmers
TAGS cognitive science | consciousness | evolution | human nature | mind-body problem | physics | psychology | science
Oct 10, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Jonathan Gold
- The seminal Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu, hero of Paving the Great Way
- Buddhist and Darwinian arguments for reality not being as it seems
- The ‘hyper-reductionism’ of Buddhism
- Meditation and the doctrine of emptiness
- Does the Buddhist view of causality leave room for agency?
- Are the past and the future real?
- Hindu and Buddhist versions of non-duality
TAGS Buddhism | evolution | free will | Hinduism | human nature | meditation | mindfulness | perception | philosophy | psychology | religion | self | spirituality | time
Sep 29, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Roger Petersen
TAGS Donald Trump | economics | empathy | fear | human nature | identity | Islam | moral imagination | nationalism | politics | psychology | tribalism | violence
Sep 21, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Erik Braun
- Erik’s book The Birth of Insight and its hero, Ledi Sayadaw
- Three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering, and not-self
- Origins and characteristics of American Buddhism
- How Burmese politics shaped Western Buddhism
- Ledi’s take on how meditation leads to enlightenment
- The ethical side of Buddhist practice
- Erik’s meditation practice
TAGS Buddhism | consciousness | enlightenment | history | human nature | meditation | mind | mindfulness | philosophy | politics | psychology | religion | science | self
Sep 17, 2016 —
Nikita Petrov & George Young
- What is Russian cosmism?
- The religious side of cosmism
- Cosmism as a response to the challenges of the 20th century
- Nature as a temporary enemy and eternal friend
- Pavel Florensky, the Russian da Vinci
- Plant life as a spiritual ideal
- The father of the Soviet space program, and his weird spirituality
- Cosmism and transhumanism: Compare and contrast
- Cosmism as a Russian propaganda project
TAGS Christianity | consciousness | death | evolution | history | human nature | mysticism | occult | philosophy | politics | religion | science | spirituality | technology | the future | transhumanism
Sep 10, 2016 —
Josh Summers & Chip Hartranft
TAGS Buddhism | consciousness | enlightenment | Hinduism | human nature | meditation | mindfulness | philosophy | religion | spirituality | yoga
Aug 8, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Susan Schneider
TAGS cognitive science | compassion | consciousness | death | free will | human nature | identity | mind-body problem | philosophy | physics | psychology | science | technology | the future | transhumanism
Feb 7, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Paul Froese
- What do we mean by a meaningful life?
- Finding purpose in being a part of something bigger
- How social context determines our understanding of meaning
- Fantasies about uniting humanity: one cause, one God, one reality
- Are we making moral progress?
- Is it empowering or terrifying to think we create our own meaning?
TAGS atheism | happiness | human nature | mindfulness | philosophy | psychology | religion | spirituality
Jan 10, 2016 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Jason Eberl
- Star Wars Philosophy 101
- St. Augustine on why people join the Dark Side
- What makes Jedi better than terrorists, and the Empire worse than the U.S.
- Midi-chlorians and the mind-body problem
- The Lucas Empire v. the Fan Alliance: battle for the imaginary universe
- The Force Awakens: spoilers and speculations
Nov 10, 2012 —
Joshua Knobe & David G. Rand
Joshua talks to Dave about his research on whether people are innately selfish or cooperative. It seems intuitive that thoughtful people would be kinder—but is this so? What’s the psychology behind being nice or mean to a stranger? Joshua and Dave analyze whether cooperation is part of human nature or mediated by culture. Could Americans teach cynical Romanians to be more cooperative? Finally, they consider the true source of our values.
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