thegreatstory | Loyal Rue pt 3: "Everybody's Story" (interview by Barlow and Dowd) @thegreatstory | Uploaded September 2014 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, was interviewed in 2014 re his book, "Everybody's Story." Topics with hotlinked timecodes in this video are below:
00:52 first quotation: "The story of cosmic evolution . . ."
02:36 How environmental crisis underpins this book
04:33 How "Amythia" led to this book on evolutionary epic
05:58 "artful integration of cosmology and morality"
06:36 Rue tries to "circumvent the naturalistic fallacy"
06:54 philosophical argument for "life is an absolute value"
07:52 Dowd counters that the value of life needs no justification
08:30 Dowd: need to get value from evidence, not mythic stories
09:56 Barlow: normal people don't care re academic philosophy
11:22 Dowd & Rue: evolution shows death as value required for life
13:13 Rue & Barlow: superb death quote in Everybody's Story
14:09 "death is the entrance fee to be paid at the exit of life"
15:03 E. O Wilson's book, "Creation"
15:35 Wilson quote: "So let us meet on the near side of metaphysics"
A total of 7 videos have been posted on youtube from this series of interviews and conversations with Loyal Rue, all recorded at his Iowa cabin in August 2014. Each of his 5 books is the topic of a video, with his "Nature Is Enough" constituting a series of 3 videos on youtube, as that one was conducted as a 3-way conversation among Loyal Rue, Connie Barlow, and Michael Dowd.
Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, was interviewed in 2014 re his book, "Everybody's Story." Topics with hotlinked timecodes in this video are below:
00:52 first quotation: "The story of cosmic evolution . . ."
02:36 How environmental crisis underpins this book
04:33 How "Amythia" led to this book on evolutionary epic
05:58 "artful integration of cosmology and morality"
06:36 Rue tries to "circumvent the naturalistic fallacy"
06:54 philosophical argument for "life is an absolute value"
07:52 Dowd counters that the value of life needs no justification
08:30 Dowd: need to get value from evidence, not mythic stories
09:56 Barlow: normal people don't care re academic philosophy
11:22 Dowd & Rue: evolution shows death as value required for life
13:13 Rue & Barlow: superb death quote in Everybody's Story
14:09 "death is the entrance fee to be paid at the exit of life"
15:03 E. O Wilson's book, "Creation"
15:35 Wilson quote: "So let us meet on the near side of metaphysics"
A total of 7 videos have been posted on youtube from this series of interviews and conversations with Loyal Rue, all recorded at his Iowa cabin in August 2014. Each of his 5 books is the topic of a video, with his "Nature Is Enough" constituting a series of 3 videos on youtube, as that one was conducted as a 3-way conversation among Loyal Rue, Connie Barlow, and Michael Dowd.
