On Being

On Being

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On Being episodes

  • [Unedited] Philip Hamburger with Krista Tippett
    Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. He’s the author of "Separation of Church and State" and "Is Administrative Law Unlawful?" This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Steven Waldman and Philip Hamburger — The Long Experiment of American Democracy." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 4 min
  • Stuart Brown — Play, Spirit, and Character
    Who knew that we learn empathy, trust, irony, and problem solving through play — something the dictionary defines as "pleasurable and apparently purposeless activity." Dr. Stuart Brown suggests that the rough-and-tumble play of children actually prevents violent behavior, and that play can grow human talents and character across a lifetime. Play, as he studies it, is an indispensable part of being human.
    51 min
  • [Unedited] Stuart Brown with Krista Tippett
    Stuart Brown is founder and president of the National Institute for Play near Monterey, California. He is co-author of "Play: How It Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Stuart Brown — Play, Spirit, and Character." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 17 min
  • Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology Behind Morality
    The surprising psychology behind morality is at the heart of social psychologist Jonathan Haidt’s research. “When it comes to moral judgments," he says, "we think we are scientists discovering the truth, but actually we are lawyers arguing for positions we arrived at by other means.” He explains “liberal” and “conservative” not narrowly or necessarily as political affiliations, but as personality types — ways of moving through the world. His own self-described “conservative-hating, religion-hating, secular liberal instincts” have been challenged by his own studies.
    51 min
  • [Unedited] Jonathan Haidt with Krista Tippett
    Jonathan Haidt is the author of the bestselling book "The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion." He is Professor of Ethical Leadership at The Stern School of Business at New York University. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Jonathan Haidt — The Psychology Behind Morality." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 50 min
  • [Unedited] Rosanne Cash with Krista Tippett
    Rosanne Cash is a Grammy award-winning singer-songwriter and author of several books. Her latest album is "The River & the Thread." This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode "Rosanne Cash — Time Traveler." Find more at onbeing.org.
    1 hr 26 min
  • Rosanne Cash — Time Traveler

    As the daughter of Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash describes her life as "circumscribed by music." But, it's through her love of language and quantum mechanics that she's finding new sources of creativity and mathematical ways to think about the divine. The mother of five shares her perspectives on being present, Twitter as a "boot camp for songwriters," and how she wrestles with love and grief through her music.

    51 min
  • Rosanne Cash, Time Traveler
    As the daughter of Johnny Cash, singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash describes her life as "circumscribed by music." But, it's through her love of language and quantum mechanics that she's finding new sources of creativity and mathematical ways to think about the divine. The mother of five shares her perspectives on being present, Twitter as a "boot camp for songwriters," and how she wrestles with love and grief through her music.
    51 min

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The premier theologion of early America, Jonathan Edwards, explores the futility of "absolute nothing" and the the existance of a "necessary eternal being."