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Jul 30, 2015 — Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
Paul is pro-“compassion” but anti-“empathy”
Different types of empathy: emotional vs. cognitive
Two examples of the damage done by empathy
The myth of pure evil
Are humans naturally moral?
The unconscious biases that inform our sense of justice
Jul 27, 2015 — Robert Wright & Michelle Goldberg
Michelle’s new book,
The Goddess Pose
Is yoga more than just exercise?
Indra Devi, the woman who helped bring yoga to the West
The amazing story of the spiritual teacher Krishnamurti
How yoga was cannily pitched to mid-century America
Yoga’s weird sort of non-attachment
Jul 25, 2015 — Robert Wright & Gary Dorrien
A brief history of liberal theology
Does “theologically liberal” mean “politically liberal?”
When theologians appeared on the cover of
Time
The long lineage of identifying God with “being”
Hegel’s idealism and the Christian
logos
Challenges from neo-orthodoxy and liberation theology
Jul 23, 2015 — Robert Wright & Miguel Farias
The science behind meditation
When meditation brings on the “dark night of the soul”
Why meditation produces varying results
When meditation was exported to the West
The trouble with the “assembly line” approach to meditation
Does meditation dull the activist spirit?
Jul 19, 2015 — Robert Wright & David Sloan Wilson
How understanding evolution can improve the real world
Is human nature mismatched to the modern environment?
Why we believe kooky things
“Meaning systems”—religious or secular, everyone’s got one
Can science and religion form a unified meaning system?
David’s latest book,
Does Altruism Exist?
Jul 18, 2015 — Robert Wright & Judith Shulevitz
Can you have religion without belief?
Bob tries to convince Judith that she’s not an atheist
Judith: The Torah is true in the way that fairy tales are true
Why “purpose” isn’t talked about much in Judaism
A Jew can’t run away from being a Jew
How atheists can create community traditions
Jul 15, 2015 — John Horgan & Sheldon Solomon
Sheldon’s roots in psychology
Ernest Becker and the meaning of mortality
Terror and death as motivating forces in life
Studying death rituals around the world
What happens when we’re reminded of death
Is there a path to eternity—or at least sanity?
Jul 11, 2015 — Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
Defining moral realism—it’s harder than you’d think!
Why Massimo is not a moral realist
Are utilitarians moral realists? Are Kantians?
Why we’ll never arrive at a single ethical theory
Human nature and why there’s no Marxist utopia
What happens to those who refuse to play the “moral game”?
Jul 8, 2015 — Robert Wright & Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Was Spinoza spiritual but not religious?
Why Rebecca left Orthodox Judaism for atheism
Transcendent experiences within a materialist universe
Is science displacing philosophy?
Finding Plato’s mysticism
Rebecca: In moments of despair, I turn to Spinoza
Jul 6, 2015 — Robert Wright & Joel Achenbach
Joel wrassles with mortality
Bob reflects on his two-week silent meditation retreat
The existential angst of a broken iPhone
Meditation and a toothache
What gives Joel’s life meaning
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