NonzeroClips | Circling the Elephant | Robert Wright & John Thatamanil [The Wright Show] @MeaningoflifeTV | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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00:55: John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity
8:20 John’s early religious sensibility
16:01 The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism
22:28 Grappling with the human predicament
39:42 Approaches to ultimate reality
46:49 John’s brush with non-dualistic experience
53:33 Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist
1:02:13 Touching the infinite elephant
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and John Thatamanil (Circling the Elephant, Union Theological Seminary). Record March 24, 2021.
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00:55: John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity
8:20 John’s early religious sensibility
16:01 The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism
22:28 Grappling with the human predicament
39:42 Approaches to ultimate reality
46:49 John’s brush with non-dualistic experience
53:33 Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist
1:02:13 Touching the infinite elephant
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and John Thatamanil (Circling the Elephant, Union Theological Seminary). Record March 24, 2021.
Comments on MoL: meaningoflife.tv/videos/43451
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![Circling the Elephant | Robert Wright & John Thatamanil [The Wright Show]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ab5gVJfeRWc/hqdefault.jpg "Circling the Elephant | Robert Wright & John Thatamanil [The Wright Show]
Support MeaningofLife.tv on Patreon: https://patreon.com/nonzerofoundation
00:55: John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity
8:20 John’s early religious sensibility
16:01 The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism
22:28 Grappling with the human predicament
39:42 Approaches to ultimate reality
46:49 John’s brush with non-dualistic experience
53:33 Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist
1:02:13 Touching the infinite elephant
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and John Thatamanil (Circling the Elephant, Union Theological Seminary). Record March 24, 2021.
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10:21 The sort of censorship that has no inherent moral valence
26:36 Various ways non-state actors can censor
34:51 When private censorship has moral stakes
43:37 Examining moral grandstanding
72:12 A changed heart vs. a false front
86:11 Could we ever resolve all our disagreements?
100:06 Reason, passion, and the founding of the Republic
David Ottlinger (The Electric Agora) and J.P. Messina (University of New Orleans)
Recorded November 13, 2019
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00:26 Nick’s new book, Automating the News
05:22 Why Nick is not an alarmist about the automation of journalism
11:26 The types of journalism jobs that algorithms can’t replace
24:30 Successful collaborations between human journalists and machines
36:24 The perils of algorithmic fact-checking
42:04 Nick’s current research
48:03 Bob hopes for a bot that can assign blame for international law violations
50:49 Can the power of Twitter bots be used for good?
Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Nicholas Diakopoulos (Northwestern University School of Communication, nickdiakopoulos.com)
Recorded September 10, 2019
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10:47 Crispin: Ludwig Wittgenstein is overrated
37:21 Dan objects to people who try to live their lives philosophically
51:31 Hume and the limits of human reason
64:45 Wittgenstein’s critique of representationalism
76:47 Did Wittgenstein debunk philosophical skepticism?
99:42 Crispin: I want my metaphysics to be compatible with my common sense
Daniel Kaufman (Missouri State University, The Electric Agora) and Crispin Sartwell (Eye of the Storm, Entanglements: A System of Philosophy)
Recorded October 2, 2019
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