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Feb 26, 2020 — Robert Wright & David Bentley Hart
David’s new book,
That All Shall Be Saved: Heaven, Hell, and Universal Salvation
What does the New Testament actually say about Hell?
Original sin and the crucifixion of Jesus
David’s case against eternal damnation
Free will, sin, and freedom
What did “the Kingdom of Heaven” mean to Jesus?
David: Envisioning the afterlife “always results in a kind of cartoon”
David’s quick thoughts on the mind-body problem
Mysticism in the Eastern Orthodox Church
Feb 24, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis
Robert’s essay examining whether pansexuality is obligatory
Orientation vs. desire
Is the push for trans rights undermining gay and lesbian rights?
Dan: Sexual attractions can’t be subject to moral scrutiny
Kant and the malleability of sexual consciousness
Dan fears the totalitarian impulse
Trans activists vs. lesbians
Feb 18, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson
In praise of
Uncut Gems
Why does Adam Sandler’s dirtbag character evince such sympathy?
Punishment and forgiveness in narrative storytelling
In praise of
Dolemite Is My Name
Eddie Murphy’s triumphant return to
SNL
Is offensive comedy coming back?
Why were these two films snubbed by the Oscars?
Expertise vs. experience in cultural criticism
Feb 11, 2020 — Robert Wright & Alexander Wendt
In a new TEDx talk, Alex calls for a science of UFOs
Why Bob finds two naval sightings credible
Alex: “There’s some decent chance that these things are alien”
Alex’s proposal for a UFO monitoring system
Might it be suicidal to let ETs know that we know about them?
Alex: Maybe the aliens are waiting for us to figure it out
What explains the taboo against academic study of UFOs?
Alex’s willingness to be misperceived as a crank
Feb 8, 2020 — Daniel Kaufman & Spencer Case
Spencer describes being quarantined in Wuhan, China
What is “moral realism”?
Can you be a moral realist and a moral subjectivist at the same time?
Revisiting Plato’s Ring of Gyges
Dan: There’s no evidence of morality beyond performances
The trouble with giving advice
“All things considered,” what ought you to do?
What we lost in the Scientific Revolution
Feb 5, 2020 — How to Live a Good Life (Robert Wright, Massimo Pigliucci, & Skye Cleary)
Skye and Massimo’s new co-edited book, with Daniel Kaufman,
How to Live a Good Life
Existentialism’s intersections with Stoicism
How Skye encountered Existentialism while in business school
Sartre and de Beauvoir’s famous attempt to live a life of freedom
Are philosophers a bunch of hypocrites?
Personal authenticity vs. social convention
Why Stoicism doesn’t mean passive acceptance
Skye and Massimo on the philosophies they found most interesting
How Wittgenstein would view this book
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