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Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)
Masseys at 60: Randy Boyagoda on Jean Bethke Elshtain

Ideas from CBC Radio (Highlights)

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 54:07


Philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain brought up an important question during the 1993 CBC Massey Lectures: is democracy as we know it in danger? Author and critic Randy Boyagoda and IDEAS producer Sean Foley revisit Elshtain's lectures. This episode is part of a series of conversations with — and about — former Massey Lecturers to mark the 60th anniversary of Massey College, a partner in the CBC Massey Lectures.

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The Veritas Forum
Under God: The Role of Religion in Public Life | Beth Elshtain & Michael Sandel

The Veritas Forum

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2020 82:49


University of Chicago professor Jean Bethke Elshtain and Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel discuss the role of religion in public life. Does religion deserve a place in the public square? Is it fair to exclude what many people consider the basis of their ethical framework? Should we study our religious texts together? Please like, share, subscribe to, and review this podcast. Thank you!

Socrates in the City
Jean Bethke Elshtain: Who Gets The Final Say: God, Government or Me?

Socrates in the City

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 17, 2020 72:11


The eminent political philosopher Jean Bethke Elshtain examines the origins and meanings of “sovereignty” as it relates to all the ways we attempt to explain our world: God, state, and self. This 2010 lecture, hosted by Eric Metaxas, ends with a lively Q&A and was originally part of Dr. Elshtain’s 2006 Gifford Lectures.

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The Hayseed Scholar Podcast
Hayseed Scholar episode 3: Cian O'Driscoll part 2

The Hayseed Scholar Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 13, 2019 54:13


Cian O'Driscoll is a Professor of International Relations, pursuing topics related to Just War, ethics, and international security. In this second part of Brent's interview with Cian, they discuss his early years as a junior scholar, including publishing, transitioning into his position at Glasgow, the infamous Elshtain book roundtable at the 2007 ISA, the International Ethics section of the ISA and the people he met there, his practice of writing, finding his voice, his philosophy on reviewing, and what he does to recharge and keep at it. 

Divinity School (video)
“Theological Reflection and The Limits of Politics” | Conference Panel 3

Divinity School (video)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 128:51


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The third of four conferences in the series “The Engaged Mind,” reflecting on themes drawn from the work of Jean Bethke Elshtain. The series is underwritten by the McDonald Agape Foundation. Panel Session Three Sovereignty: God, State and Self Chair and Respondent — Michael Gillespie Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Duke University Gilbert Meilaender Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University “Engaging the Mind of Elshtain on Sovereignty” Lisa Sowle Cahill J. Donald Monan Professor, Boston College “Sovereign No More? Selves, States, and God in Our Bewildering Global Environment” See more at https://divinity.uchicago.edu/theological-reflection-and-limits-politics

Divinity School (audio)
“Theological Reflection and The Limits of Politics” | Conference Panel 3

Divinity School (audio)

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 13, 2015 128:57


If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The third of four conferences in the series “The Engaged Mind,” reflecting on themes drawn from the work of Jean Bethke Elshtain. The series is underwritten by the McDonald Agape Foundation. Panel Session Three Sovereignty: God, State and Self Chair and Respondent — Michael Gillespie Professor of Philosophy and Political Science, Duke University Gilbert Meilaender Professor of Theology, Valparaiso University “Engaging the Mind of Elshtain on Sovereignty” Lisa Sowle Cahill J. Donald Monan Professor, Boston College “Sovereign No More? Selves, States, and God in Our Bewildering Global Environment” See more at https://divinity.uchicago.edu/theological-reflection-and-limits-politics

Templeton Research Lectures
Is There a Human Nature:An Argument Against Modern Excarnation

Templeton Research Lectures

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2009 78:42


Jean Bethke Elshtain (University of Chicago) is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, with joint appointments in the divinity school, department of political science, and committee on international relations. A political philosopher, Elshtain has explored the connections between our political thought and ethical convictions in numerous books, lectures and articles, including Public Man, Private Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought (1981, 1992); Democracy on Trial (a New York Times “Notable Book” for 1995); Augustine and the Limits of Politics (1998); Who Are We? Critical Reflections, Hopeful Possibilities (Best Book 2000 by the Association of Theological Booksellers); and Just War Against Terror: The Burden of American Power in a Violent World (2004). She has lectured frequently on issues of biotechnology and ethics, and was a contributor to the volume Biotechnology and the Human Good (2007). In 2003, Elshtain was the second holder of the Maguire Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress. In 2006, she was appointed to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities and also delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, published as Sovereignty: God, State, and Self (2008).