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Mammalian Cloning and Stem Cell Therapy
by Rudolf Jaenisch
Available on: Online Video
In this talk, leading genetist Rudolf Jaenisch delivers a clear overview of the challenges facing the cloning, dispelling many of the misconceptions about cloning that are pervasive in popular media.
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Seven Steps Of Self-Actualization
Available on: Audio Download
After finishing Paul D. Hudon book entitled Seven Steps in Self Actualization, I realized this is not just another of your "run of the mill" self help books; as the title suggests,is All In All.
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Why Can't We Be Good?
by Jacob Needleman
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Jacob Needleman discusses Why Can't We Be Good?
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Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?
by Steven Hawkins
Available on: Online Audio
On this week's show, we broadcasted the 13th Great Debate held as part of the biannual Great Debate Series that Boston University's College of Communications began in 1996. The topic of the 13th Great Debate was "Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?"
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Neuroethics
by Stephan Chorover
Available on: Online Video
Philosophers have long sought to answer questions about who we are, where we come from and where we’re going.
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The Moral Imagination & the Teaching of Virtue
by Russell Kirk
Available on: Online Audio
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Human Cloning and Human Rights
by Rudolf Jaenisch
Available on: Online Video
Ignore the noisy debate around cloning, Rudolf Jaenisch quietly insists, and instead look closely at the biology involved.
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Our Bodies, Our Technologies
by Ray Kurzweil
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video | Video Download
How close are we to a world in which the abilities of machines are indistinguishable from those of the species that invented them?
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Is Abortion Morally Justifiable in a Free Society?
by Peter Kreeft
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Peter Kreeft is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
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Moral Relativism
by Greg Koukl
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Moral relativism, says Koukl, is not an alternative way to think about morality, nor is it a refinement of how we are to think of morality—rather, it is an outright denial of morality.
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Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
by Michael Sandel
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering with Michael Sandel and William Haseltine speaking at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival. Elliot Gerson moderates the discussion.
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The Lesser Evil
by Michael Ignatieff
Available on: Audio Download
Michael Ignatieff is an articulate advocate of the use of American military power to shape the world according to American values and interests.
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Are We All Libertarians Now?
by Peter Augustine Lawler
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Dr. Lawler is Professor of Government at Berry College in Georgia.
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Is Manliness A Virtue?
by Harvey C. Mansfield
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Africa
by Tim Fry
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
How should Christians respond to issues in Darfur?
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With Good Intentions
by David Rieff
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Many conservatives questioned the wisdom and efficacy of using the U.S. military for humanitarian missions in Somalia in 1993 and Haiti in 1994. More recently, however, voices on both the left and the right have called for U.S. military intervention in Darfur, Congo, and elsewhere.
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Shaping the Future
by David Fromkin
Available on: Online Audio
Throughout history, individuals have attested to the power each one of us has to make a difference in the world. As agents of free will, we make choices the impact of which can extend beyond our lifetimes and be long-lasting.
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Are There Christian Foundations for Political Liberty?
by Nicholas Wolterstorff
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
American Christians – along with many others – are thoroughly confused as to whether liberal democracy is a good thing, claims Professor Nicholas Wolterstorff.
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Western Myths About Pluralism
by Vinoth Ramachandra
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
Agreeing with Vaclev Havel that human rights must have a basis in some authority that lies outside of human beings, Ramachandran evaluates Christianity with other religious and philosophical systems in their ability to provide such a basis.
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Trapped: When Acting Ethically Is Against the Law
by John Hasnas
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Since Enron's collapse in 2002, the federal government has stepped up its campaign against white-collar crime.
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Immortality Institute: Ethical and Theological Considerations
by Brad F. Mellon
Available on: Video Download | Online Video
Presentation at the Immortality Institute's conference in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, by Brad F. Mellon, Ph.D. Discusses Christian, religious, theological, ethical, and biblical considerations of immortality and life extension.
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On Academic Freedom and Other Topics
by William F. Buckley, Jr.
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute Lecture Program assists in sponsoring lectures each year at the college, university, and preparatory school levels.
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Intelligent Designs on Evolution
by Mary Beth Kirchner
Available on: Online Audio
Questions about our origins as a species have been plaguing us as humans, prodding us as scientists and dividing us as Americans for more than a hundred years...
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Lobby Reform or Regression
by Bradley A. Smith
Available on: Audio Download | Online Audio | Online Video
Congress has been moving rapidly toward enacting new ethics and lobbying regulations.
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Scientific Inquiries and Faustian Dangers
by James Collins
Available on: Online Audio
In 1952, the "Partisan Review," one of America's oldest and most respected literary and cultural journals, asked American intellectuals to assess the effects of political and cultural changes due to events following WWII, such as the rise of communism, the Cold War, and America's emerging economic superiority.
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