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It’s ironic that eugenics has been discredited on moral grounds, but some US hospitals are currently chemically castrating and encouraging it on moral grounds.

I love your beard :)

Amazing discrediting of a once vogue belief. Great dispassionate calm lecture.

Eugenics was a way to cement the status quo of society using science instead of religion. People who were at the bottom before Eugenics stayed on the bottom as genetic inferiors to justify their place in life. People who everyone persecuted before Eugenics were persecuted and exterminated under Eugenics as inferior races.

Brilliant, as always. Does the history of the word fascist define anything relative to today? Its use as contemporary political accusation seems to have rendered the word meaningless as no one seems to know what its current definition is. What do you say, Prof. Guyer?

When you put it like that Modern Ameticans are just Greeks and Romans in suits.

Brilliant and applicable, especially to this election season, to those bold enough to participate in respectful independent thoughtful dispassionate discussion, then, even if we agree to disagree, finish it to go outside to play frisbee together.

Dr. Guyer, I learned much from this lecture about my own Christian background. Thanks. Request: please mention the span of years covered when giving begin and end dates. By the time in your lecture you mention the end date I have forgotten the begin date. So I do not know how long the process you're mentioning lasted. A student must either "rewind" the video to find out the span of time covered or just not know. Thanks again.

Prof. Guyer, great job as always. Can you make a video on, " Why can't we all just get along?"

listening to this in BC in August 2024, where 2 wet days have damped down forest fires here- but not probably in Central & South America or South East ASia. This interested me and reminded me of things I had forgotten about as new/ emergent/ transforamtive.. but it also seemed so western centric, was the global South only a player because we were still overpowering parts of it, and just getting embroiled in other parts of it? i ws also struck by your description of Galbraith as Canadian, North American. In the UK - Andy Murray, our most successful tennis player was British when he won Wimbldon, otherwise Scottish! like Arthur Marwick !! Thanks, got me thinking

For which university is this class?

This teacher is like the Samson of teaching history. But with the length of his beard correlating with learning instead of the length of his hair correlating with his strength.

Dr. Guyer, I look forward to another fascinating, thought provoking class; this one explaining some of the basic history that defines and forms us as Americans.

Thank you for discussing this. I like when people focus more on the questions and answers that a theory brings up, rather than spending all their time poking holes in the weak points of it. Do you know if there is a name for this kind of thinking/response?

I appreciated the academic review. I have a hardcover copy of Marwick's masterpiece. It was the first time I had seen the 60s framed as a long decade. I often tell people I was born the 60s, using Marwick's dating. I was born 74. I just made it. I've always been intrigued by that era.

Reparations now Reparations tomorrow Reparations forever!

Thank U, Infinite Intelligence 🙏

Brilliant as always! The the old order replaced by the new brought much trauma, gain and some loss, but better for advancing the American ideal of “one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.” Good job!

Thanks for a careful presentation on an intellectual proposition still vital but in need of update. To update see recent Pew research on Americans' attitudes about religion and the environment. Also, the Industrial Revolution not different than science but an expansion of it into technology, as White notes. Knowledge is power! Whee!

Absolutely magnificent!

Remarkably concise, informative and downright exciting.

Brilliant. Even my lawschool constitutional law professor- who was outstanding - did not explain the 13-15 amendments as thoroughly as has Prof Guyer. Bravo!

Looking forward to a new vein of historical discouvery, insight, and explanation; this time on the USA! Should be informative, inspiring and great, as all you work is.

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Fabulous content and delivery, and I discovered that it takes me exactly 13 minutes to eat a bowl of Haagen Daas vanilla ice cream with 3 chocolate chip cookies. Sweet and satisfying knowledge.

Fantastic video! Very informative both about the man and the dialogues around him.

Absolutely riveting history, everyone should watch this on Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day.

Oh my, the brilliance and depth of your presentation and its contemporary applicability makes me recall the woman who shouted to Jesus, “Blessed is the womb that bore You, and blessed are the breasts that nursed You!” Excellence springing at least in part from your upbringing. Great work as always.

Great explanation of the intellectual foundation of environmentalism. Just went to a climate change conference hosted by a church. The conference gave ism and politics a hearing without a role and the best part - for me at least - was collective collaborative social preparation to head off inevitable climate change from becoming a catastrophe, e.g., heat tolerant crops and cattle (i.e., switch from angus to brama). Less argument and more action, maybe like faith in the corporal works of mercy.

I have read many main line versions of the Bible and find translators’ use of synonyms shade meaning. I do not perceive these variations of shade as dishonest but as reflecting unavoidable limits of the English language. And by reading several versions one gets fuller “truer” meaning of the word and avoids subtle - to the lay person at least - partisan theological agenda setting. In other words, they all say pretty much, and for all practical purposes, the same thing just with different words. Please comment Prof. Guyer.

This is a wonderful presentation on the history of Christian theology. Let me ask this question on the"So what" challenge: In general does removing material mean it is not considered "The word of God", but only helpful in understanding that word?

What a very exciting presentation, I only have a vague awareness of Earth Day and don't recall having ever celebrated it. So I will next time to the tune of happy birthday.

Outstanding, politically neutral, scholarly discussion of “earth day” thereby educating without poisoning for “Politics poisons everything it touches.” (Trey Gowdy)

What an excellent overview and conclusion about what we might call the "history arts”. Historical writing though empirically based endures or not, or is reprinted or not, based upon creative thought and writing style. Peer review as you explain so well serves to validate or question the empirical basis transmitted through the creative writing. Unlike the physical sciences, turn of phrase becomes the artistic brand of the historian. For computer programmers, the analog is "elegant code". Creative writing and original thought in both the arts and sciences translate the empirical to the rest of us outside the university setting almost exclusively through the power of fiction- historical novels and science-fiction books, screenplays, graphic novels and film. Biographies abound of famous experts attracted to their fields by exciting novels or television series rather than academic curriculum. History and science at their best don't just teach, they inspire.

Great explanation of modes of academic publishing and the mechanics to keep it credible. As to practice, only true scholars such as yourself know how well the mechanics actually work.

Outstanding yet simple and concise. Another point of interest is art auththenitcators and detectives can distinguish art created before 1945 by measuring the isotopes caesium-137 and strontium-90 since neither of them occur naturally but are released by nuclear blasts. We think of the 1945 bombs as being the source of most atmospheric radiation, but it was just the start and over 500 atmospheric military development nuclear blasts have occurred since 1945. Because artists into the early 20th century used plant-based seed oils to carry pigments for their paints, no Van Gogh, DiVinci or Picasso can be forged without detection-- caesium-137 and strontium-90 will rat them out if tested. The Cold War in fact was waged with nuclear weapons, but by contaminating the environment not direct strikes on humans.

I greatly benefit by your courses. They stretch me intellectually as I try to put my mind around what you are saying which - beyond the Bible - for me are largely new ideas.thanks

I see the connection to your earlier video "The Lynn White Thesis", and look forward to watching you place the building blocks of thought as we search for the lost ark.

Very high quality.

I want more!

Excellent presentation, boom economics after epidemics diminish the work forces and real estate markets are the same with Covid centuries later.

Thanks for taking time to share

The effect of liberty.

Dense and erudite, I had to listen twice, but well worth it. Stewardship is the essence of dominion over creation, as you note Genesis. A counter-thesis premised on post-Christian modernism would seem to have obvious advantages over those lacking that premise. Compared to pagan animism where every tree had a soul and we honored ourselves by naming our children after animals, the biblical decoding as you describe it has left nature at the mercy of the decoders. Not to mention the cultural monotony of naming our children from the Bible. Hopefully children named Feathered Eagle and Blue Sky would be better ecologists than a John or Peter. Would stewardship be more affective with grounding in atheism or even anti-Christianity? I think not because at least the process of biblical decoding imbues nature with the presumption of divine protection. The Christian West thrives, it learns from its environmental mistakes, it is taking remedial action. It contains the essential element for survival and salvation- humility as you referenced it. Thank you once again professor for the scholarly invigoration.

This is excellent, I had no idea that vernacular mass was discussed so long ago.

Brilliant

I’ve been a Christian since university and this is the most understandable explanation of the vices, virtues, and sin I’ve ever heard and in just 11 minutes. Thanks

Outstanding! Great perspectives.

Prof. Guyer is an astounding intellect with an engaging style explaining fascinating history.