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MeaningofLife.tv videos — February 2020
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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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