I highly recommend that everyone listen to the entire Beyond Belief series of videos.
There's more than ten hours of videos of a conference with Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Paul Davies, etc.
There's about 4Gb of downloads which are available from the website, or there are torrents available.
Or I can send it to you on DVD if you contact me.
Beyond Belief
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Re: Beyond Belief
I was deeply impressed by listening to these discussions. They are almost as good as the Reasoning Show podcasts.
The one thing that struck me most is the absence of metaphysics, in Beyond Belief. Discussions often seemed to polarise between religiousness and scientific thought, as if logic and philosophy was beyond the pale. I think the discussions about God got nowhere as a result.
One of the three main themes of the discussions was, "If not religion, then what?" It seemed to be answered by, "Science plus love". Sam Harris reasoned that love and rationality can arise together, and that humanity doesn't have to abandon family, friends, relationships, and warmth, when it leaves religion behind. Either he doesn't believe it, but was trying to create a stepping-stone from devotion to God, to co-operation. Or he does, and values them equally.
My question is: can one value love and reason equally? Or, would valuing one over the other affect one's ability to value coherently?
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The one thing that struck me most is the absence of metaphysics, in Beyond Belief. Discussions often seemed to polarise between religiousness and scientific thought, as if logic and philosophy was beyond the pale. I think the discussions about God got nowhere as a result.
One of the three main themes of the discussions was, "If not religion, then what?" It seemed to be answered by, "Science plus love". Sam Harris reasoned that love and rationality can arise together, and that humanity doesn't have to abandon family, friends, relationships, and warmth, when it leaves religion behind. Either he doesn't believe it, but was trying to create a stepping-stone from devotion to God, to co-operation. Or he does, and values them equally.
My question is: can one value love and reason equally? Or, would valuing one over the other affect one's ability to value coherently?
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