13. Search for America - Progress with Reinhold Niebuhr
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2020
- Americans sing of their country as the "land of their fathers," but they think of it as the "land of their children". But two and a half world wars and a catastrophic depression in a single generation have rocked the idea of building a better world for the kids - in short, the idea ·of progress - to its foundations. Is it still reasonable to believe in progress? Huston Smith asks Professor Reinhold Niebuhr, distinguished American author and theologian? If not, does this conclusion cut the nerve of social effort?
In this series, the inquiry turns from descriptive to normative values, from the 'is' to the ‘ought'. Focusing on fifteen crucial problems confronting the American people, from foreign policy decisions to matters of personal faith, it asks: What values should guide us toward the solution of these problems? Featured Personality: Huston Smith, a pioneer in Educational Television, Huston Smith is known to the television public for his two previous series: The Religions of Man and Science and Human Responsibility. For eleven years Professor of Philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis, he moved in 1959 to become the first Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, since the early days of that institution. An authority in comparative philosophy, Dr. Smith is the author of The Religions of Man and The Purposes of Higher Education.
For more videos featuring Huston Smith, please visit www,HustonSmith.org
" We're the one culture in which the culture is subordinate to the economic process." Yep and now the political process as well !
Long live Sir huston smith s legacy 🙏 🙌 ❤
It's never a bad idea, when you present archival material, to actually tell people when it was made.
Television sure isn't what it used to be. These days Niebuhr would be featured on a panel with 5 other guests and barely have any time to speak between the other guests speaking over each other, the audience cheering and the commercial breaks.
Long live democratic socialism and freedom
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