Lectures tagged "Spirituality & Religion"


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Debating Same-Sex Marriage / The Good Life
Michael Sandel
November 29, 2009
00:55:10
Lecture Twenty-Two: "Debating Same-Sex Marriage" If principles of justice depend on the moral or intrinsic worth of the ends that rights serve, how does society deal with the fact that people hold different ideas and conceptions of what is good?
Eric Nelson: The Hebrew Republic
Eric Nelson
March 8, 2010
00:52:04
Eric Nelson discusses his new book, The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought.
Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil
Philip Zimbardo
April 2, 2007
01:48:17
Philip Zimbardo helps us understand what causes people who began life with good intentions, to discard them.
Peace and Tolerance: The Dalai Lama on Education
Tenzin Gyatso
May 9, 2007
01:01:00
The Dalai Lama discusses living a life of peace and tolerance and the limits of education at Smith College.
Rodger Kamenetz: History of Last Night's Dream
Rodger Kamenetz
November 28, 2007
00:59:27
In his new book The History of Last Night's Dream, Rodger Kamenetz searches for spiritual truth in dreams. How has the quest to interpret dreams shaped Western thought? How do dreams allow us to communicate with our unconscious selves?
Consciousness, Creativity, and the Brain
David Lynch
October 1, 2005
01:32:13
David Lynch, the award-winning writer, director, and producer, answers questions on his films, his 32-year practice of Transcendental Meditation, and the role of consciousness in the creative process.
Native Americans: Living in Two Worlds
Gill Solomon
April 1, 2009
00:24:02
The people who first inhabited the land now known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts share their own stories. They show the difference between the European world view and the natives' world view, and demonstrate the importance of passing on oral traditions to younger generations.
Pinker and Goldstein: Science, Fiction, and God
Steven Pinker
February 17, 2010
01:23:00
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, philosopher and author of the new novel 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction, discusses mind-body problems with her husband, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker.