Cornel West and Robert George: The examined life | LIVE STREAM
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- Опубліковано 29 лис 2016
- While they are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, Princeton Professors Robert George and Cornel West have spent the past several years teaching and lecturing together to accomplish a common goal: the provision of a true liberal arts education to their students. Through their courses and their friendship, they have served as examples of how, when two knowledgeable and principled individuals come together in an honest and nonadversarial pursuit of truth, the competition of ideas deepens their own understanding of that truth.
Join AEI for this conversation, moderated by AEI’s Ramesh Ponnuru, a former student of both professors, as we ask what constitutes a true liberal arts education. Is its purpose instrumental, or is there something more? What values are necessary for universities, faculty, administrators, and students to ensure that a liberal arts education remains attainable?
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Robert George and Cornel West both gave their views very well and seemed to agree often on the ends if not the means. It was a joy to see the love and the hug at the end. This is what debate should be about.
My only regret would be that the debate wasn't extended to other questions which it brought up, such as the point of view of atheists on the accountability to a higher value and the role of religion in subordination of the masses. I would love to see these two debating with Nietzsche's view.
I would also ask that if a liberal education is so valuable why is it not accessible to everyone, would it not be great to have this online as a course, free to all.
Love to you all.
The Tao of Cornel West. He’s brilliant! I know he’s a Christian but at his core I feel he is just as enlightened and grounded in Eastern philosophies.
Really enjoyed this... learned quite a lot, Applause and kudos to both men! Lot of great insight on display here! Thanks for uploading this video.
Outstanding.
Love this!
I really enjoyed some segments of this discussion. Seeking to feel good to counter the threat of nihilism. Or put another way treating an internal void with circumstantial bandages such as wealth, power, prestige, or drugs. I think without a somewhat examined life the soul does become disordered and one can more easily become a slave to passions, thus subverting reason and a moral driven life. I appreciate the reminder that to find what you should be doing now, take the perspective from your death. Always a motivating thought experiment.
Powerful...though I don't mind feeling good; yet such an attraction is not my primary objective.🙏👍🇯🇲
Brother West seems like a divine being with his patience in dealing with these bourgeois reactionaries.
Honestly, his presence here makes this video worthwhile.
Will you be providing a transcript later?
Lots to wrestle with here, but at 1:21 I think George is wrong in saying that if one fully "takes on board" a "liberal education" one can become "one's own best critic" and have no further need for an interlocutor. The pragmatist reply to this is that the test of truth is in experience, and experience always is private, individual and ever-changing. Experience always runs ahead of knowing. Because we are blinkered, engagement with the other is always necessary. We need others (and other moral traditions) to know where we are going. Morally as well as epistemologically, no one is an island, and thinking we are, or should be, can have destructive consequences. We should recognize that there is not a "slight possibility" we might be wrong, there is a very large possibility we will be wrong, particularly about someone else's experience. And no set of principles or precepts, no self-determined "ordering of the soul," spares one from the encounter with the strange and new. Otherwise we could "order our souls," read all the Great Books, and call it quits. A mystery always awaits us.
Well... he doesn't say, "have no further need for an interlocutor...," he says, rather, "...will scarcely need an interlocutor..." But I agree with your central point in reply to that sentiment. Flawed as we are, even at our very best, criticism of our worldview from outside ourselves, outside of our own self criticism, is crucial. all important, and perhaps more sincere and just.
real video starts at 5:30 youre welcome
Thank you for hosting our SEGL students and answering their questions. This was a wonderful event!
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the majority around us live unexamined lives !!
Plato : The worse kind of slaves are the ones who think they are free Dr George!
Whoever borrowed the moderators balls please return them at your earliest convenience. He sounds like a girlier Rachel Maddow.
Try again to make a useful comment.
the" ordering of the soul" "self-mastery" as the pinnacle of learning (i.e. revelation) George has been reading the Qur'an. Those concepts are described using that terminology nowhere else
" nowhere else", seriously? haha
A question.
So, your religion, your belief in God, is an escape from actuality, and therefore it is no religion at all. The rich man who accumulates money through cruelty, through dishonesty, through cunning exploitation believes in God; and you also believe in God, you also are cunning, cruel, suspicious, envious. Is God to be found through dishonesty, through deceit, through cunning tricks of the mind? Because you collect all the sacred books and the various symbols of God, does that indicate that you are a religious person? So, religion is not escape from the fact; religion is the understanding of the fact of what you are in your everyday relationships; religion is the manner of your speech, the way you talk, the way you address your servants, the way you treat your wife, your children, and neighbors,world wide.
Dr west for president 🇺🇸🇺🇸
I’m don’t know how Cornel West can tolerate these people, really.
Redford Grange whom?
Robert George is an extremely arrogant man.. Who certainly loves the sound of his own voice..
It should have been Cornel West alone
postive
This is AEI though. An elite capitalist think tank
postive you know who would totally disagree with you? Cornell West.
You obviously didn't really understand what they were trying to do here.
Although I can see the first impression may be that way - his demeanor is not as approachable as Cornel and when Robert talks about slavery as if he is an expert it can be instantly cringe-worthy, you should give him a chance. He comes from a coal mining family (not a long time rich elitist white family) and if you focus on what he is saying, not exactly how he is saying it, it's pretty deep and interesting.
Couldn’t it just be he has more to offer intellectually?
@@NequeNon yes because he is a supremely humble man. However the fact remains the same...