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| Preview | Issue Date | Title | Author(s) | | 11-Sep-2003 | Carl Sagan's Cosmos vs. the Genesis accounts of creation, human dominion over nature, freedom, determinism, moral responsibility, Gordon Kaufman on Kant The Concept of Nature: A Problem for Theology, what is nature? can human beings be fully comprehended under the term nature? The terms world, cosmos, and universe, brief discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 5-May-1994 | Celebration, praise, and thanksgiving | Baer, Richard |
| 31-Mar-1994 | Class discussion: the meaning of nature: can human beings be fully comprehended under the term nature? Are human beings more valuable than any other part of nature? The infamous caterpillar example | Baer, Richard |
| 17-Mar-1994 | Controlling nature: Leiss The Domination of Nature, the myth of Icarus, Francis Bacon, Betrand Russell Icarus, or the Future of Science, Mircea Eliade The Forge and the Crucible, alchemy and magic, the secular version of the alchemist's dream as the driving force in modern society, Goethe's Faust, CS Lewis The Abolition of Man and That Hideous Strength, discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 27-Sep-2001 | The de-mythologizing and de-sacralizing of nature, Greek philosophy, natural causes for natural events, cyclical vs. linear view of time, David and Bathsheba, discussion | Baer, Richard |
| 24-Feb-1994 | Deontological ethics, social contract theories, John Rawls A Theory of Justice, Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill (utilitarians), "rights", English Liberalism, John Locke | Baer, Richard |
| 23-Sep-2003 | The desacralization of nature, Leo Marx Pastoral Ideals and City Troubles, recurring themes in literature - retreat from civilization, escape to nature, return to civilization; The Interrupted Idyll, symbolic landscape, lengthy discussion - racism, breakdown of family structure, lack of diverse viewpoints at Cornell | Baer, Richard |
| 22-Feb-1994 | Descriptive vs. normative ethics, meta-ethics, logical positivism, the extent of ethical consensus, John Rawls "reflective equilibrium", teleological ethics, Alistair MacIntyre | Baer, Richard |
| 27-Jan-1994 | Environmental studies - theory vs. specifics | Baer, Richard |
| 4-Sep-2001 | The epistemological status of moral claims, CS Lewis The Abolition of Man, human dominance over nature; Thomas Merton | Baer, Richard |
| 6-Sep-2001 | Epistemology (discussion): radical doubt, "knowledge equals certainty", warrantable assertions, examples: gratuitous harm and truth-telling, difference between hard and social sciences, experimental method, literature as thought-experiment, learning by mistakes (eg. no-fault divorce), unprovable assumptions of science | Baer, Richard |
| 25-Sep-2001 | Epistemology, Gordon Kaufman, Ian Barbour, Carl Sagan, the Genesis account from the Bible, H. and H.A. Frankfort Before Philosophy, personalized nature, myths, an example of a scientific myth | Baer, Richard |
| 29-Mar-1994 | A feminist perspective on environmental ethics: Carol Gilligan, Val Plumwood, the effects of the sexual revolution, daycare vs. parental care, Wendell Berry The Unsettling of America | Baer, Richard |
| 4-Dec-2003 | Friends | Baer, Richard |
| 25-Nov-2003 | The future of NR-407 | Baer, Richard |
| 12-Mar-1994 | Galatians, historical time line for Judaism and Christianity, Gospel precedes Law, Peter, Paul, and circumcision, Harvard grad school, Emil Brunner, how are we to love our neighbor? | Baer, Richard |
| 1-Feb-1994 | God and Religion: William Cantwell Smith The Meaning and End of Religion, "religio", reification, God reveals not religion, but himself; the language of discourse in the university, the importance of soft knowledge | Baer, Richard |
| 3-May-1994 | The God Who Plays | Baer, Richard |
| 11-Nov-2003 | The God Who Plays | Baer, Richard |
| 10-Mar-1994 | Greek vs. Hebrew views of history, discussion of Deut. 26, Deut. 6:20-25, the indicative precedes the imperative | Baer, Richard |
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