14. Search for America - Morality with Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มี.ค. 2020
- Huston Smith interviews Doctor Reinhold Niebuhr famed American theologian an author about morality are America’s morals changing our moral codes absolute or relative does morality pay is the good man that happy man.
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
This is so fascinating truly a gem that should have many, many more views!
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) -- best known today as the author of the Serenity Prayer -- was the most prominent American theologian, Christian ethicist, and public intellectual of the 20th century. He was critical of both liberal Christianity and Christian fundamentalism. His brother, H. Richard Niebuhr, and his (Reinhold's) wife Ursula Niebuhr, were also theologians.
12:33 seems to help explain something important about our ex president! Niebuhr's mind is something to see in person thanks to film. I doubt he received questions ahead of time? No wonder so many people praise this man's efforts to understand us as we really are. Great post
#ThankYouForThePhenomenalMessageReinholdNiebuhrAndHustonSmith💫💫💫💫
I love the expressions on his face and his responses when he is contemplative. It's like he is participating in the Platonic forms themselves. Liberty, Justice, and the nature of how freedom of choice both restricts and makes morality possible. Very retro
'Very Retro', it looks like an early George Romero effort.
Well, it was the 1950s, so -- retro, yes.
Yes True 🌸🆒🙏
And here we are in 2024 no closer than in the 1960s. I'm not saying that weve not made any progress but Sir people still suck .Thank you for sharing
Just ran across this quote - History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. Hegel
👏 🙏 🤝 👍 absolutely ! 25 years ago, at work, I said to the folks: We are
b a c k w a r d s going into the future ! That is RE-gression, and is against ANY evolution !
😂❤
Please send this video to the libertarian party!
Awesome! Helps understand today's American Christianity
I'm not a Christian (not even really a theist) or a conservative but I found a lot to admire and learn from in the doctor's words here. It would be much easier to respect the modern conservative christian community if there was a figure like him around.
There is. His name is Jesus Christ.
@@virtualpilgrim8645 I'm not sure even the doctor would feel he warrants that direct comparison.
@@nicheman3612 Yes, but we are all judged according to that ideal man, nonetheless.
I perceive that there are 2 dialogues taking place here: one intrinsic, within Dr Niebuhr himself, and one with Mr. Houston Smith. As Mr. Houston Smith queries Dr. Niebuhr, he spawns a task of searching within, his facial expressions revealing emotive discoveries within. Very fascinating that he seems, for a bit, disassociate with Mr. Houston Smith and upon reaching his conclusion he rejoins his conversation. I have never seen that before but it reveals much about his thought process. An interal Socrates process.
'I'm Huston Smith, but you can call me HAL 9000.'
i realize it is pretty randomly asking but do anyone know of a good website to watch newly released tv shows online?
@Jayson Reid lately I have been using flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
Morality is an interesting thing. From what I have read, morality and ethics are slightly different. They both give consideration to what is right and wrong. Morality can lead to conformity if our moral compass says that we should be a certain way to fit within a certain societal construct. Morals are held within our own being. Ethics are those rules provided to us by an external source; e.g. codes of conduct within a workplace, the various principals within a particular religion etc. Our morals don't always align with what might be considered ethically right; for example a doctor might feel it is morally right to speak to a parent about their child being pregnant, but if the child is of age then privacy laws might come into affect - making it ethically not sound for the doctor to disclose this information to the parent.
Also, I intuitively feel that I can be myself within myself. I don't see it as I have to go outside of myself to be myself. We have this tendency to look too much to others for our morals; when we hold them within. Authenticity is born from within. It is quite difficult to find our truth if we are only looking outside of ourselves. We find who we are within and then shine that light outwards. We do learn from others; and we adjust - but this does not push aside the fact that we carry our morals within. Acting from a place that is morally right is not always socially acceptable. A good example of this is the fact that they only started to abolish the White Australia policy in 1966. This is despite the very obvious undertones of discrimination and segregation within this policy, it was considered to be socially acceptable at the time. Individuals might stand up for what they believe is right and good; yet sometimes our viewpoints on what is ethically and/or morally right and good might clash.
truth
Dauphin River First Nation Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦
What year was this interview?
I'm not sure, but perhaps between 1956 and 1959. Huston's Religions of Man series was in 1954 or 1955, and this series came after that.
When was this interview?