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MeaningofLife.tv videos — June 2019
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Jun 29, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Nathan Eckstrand
- Nathan’s recent essay, “Is it Time for the Humanities to Strike?”
- The attack on the humanities goes international
- Are non-college graduates deficient voters?
- Why the educated elite aren’t the most ethical people
- Could a strike re-engage the public with the humanities?
- How to win over those who most thoroughly reject the humanities
Jun 22, 2019 —
John Horgan & Jeffrey Kripal
- Jeff’s new book, The Flip: Epiphanies of Mind and the Future of Knowledge
- How John and Jeff make sense of Freud
- Jeff redefines the “paranormal”
- What belief in levitation or clairvoyance reveals about human nature
- Are hardcore atheists/materialists doing religious fundamentalism a favor?
- The death and rebirth of good old human narcissism
- Jeff on humanity’s future and the nature of optimism
Jun 21, 2019 —
Robert Wright & Gideon Rosen
- A brief primer on the free will vs. determinism debate
- Are moral responsibility and determinism compatible?
- Is punishment a tragic necessity or a moral good?
- Gideon tries to convince Bob that compatibilism is coherent
- Gideon’s distinctive take on compatibilism
- A thought experiment about the moral culpability of an ancient slaveholder
- Free will and the mind-body problem
- Buddhist ideas about punishment
Jun 19, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Rachel Vorona Cote
- Rachel’s essay on her mother’s death, “The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning”
- Aryeh recalls mourning his father in the pre–social media era
- A moment when language fails
- Is it possible to talk about death with sincerity on Twitter?
- The many (often gendered) Victorian rituals of mourning
- Rachel’s forthcoming book, Too Much: How Victorian Constraints Still Bind Women Today
- Do you want to be memorialized for eternity on Facebook?
Jun 18, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis
- Is the “Morality Everywhere Problem” really a problem?
- Why Robert finds the moral question difficult to dispel
- Peter Singer’s “drowning child” thought experiment
- Is weakness of will keeping Robert from volunteering at the soup kitchen?
- Dan: “Embrace the normal”
- What do those living in dire poverty want first-worlders to do?
- Why Rob is repulsed by utilitarianism
- Dan: The end goal of charity is human flourishing
- Were people less sensitive in the past?
Jun 11, 2019 —
Josh Summers & Matthew Remski
- Matthew’s new book, Practice and All Is Coming
- Justifications for sexual abuse in the early Ashtanga yoga community
- Matthew: “Sacred” leaders like Pattabhi Jois have been absolved of personal responsibility
- Just how ancient are modern yoga practices?
- Matthew responds to accusations from the Ashtanga community
- How much agency do victims of sexual abuse really have?
- Reforming yoga communities with histories of abuse
Jun 1, 2019 —
Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Sarah Marshall
- Remembering the Satanic ritual abuse panic of the 1980s
- How the McMartin case launched the panic
- Sarah: Recovered memory therapy created the idea of Satanic ritual abuse
- Why hasn’t there been a large-scale reckoning with the panic?
- Contemporary resonances: witch hunts and moral panics
- Sarah visits Disney World and thinks about desire
- Why are there so many absent mothers in the Disney canon?
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