How has information technology shaped the ideas of civilization over the last 2500 years?
Watch our conversation with historian and Graham School instructor Fred Beuttler to explore how IT has impacted the philosophical and spiritual ideas in Western culture. Together, we revisit the struggle between the “Ancients” and the “Moderns,” and look at the relationship between “Techne” (science and technology) and “Sophia” (wisdom). Does wisdom progress like science and technology?
In this conversation with Dawn M. Carpenter, distinguished ethicist, financial advisor, and author of The Longevity Equation, we explored how healthspan and wealthspan are deeply intertwined across the life course. Carpenter introduced her framework for understanding longevity as an outcome shaped not only by medical care, but by financial security, institutional design, and the responsible…...
This lecture examines Albert Camus’s philosophy of absurdism and suggests that, in works such as The Myth of Sisyphus, he defends a life of courage and solidarity as a defiance of nihilism.
In this conversation with Michael Rossi, associate professor of the history of medicine and author of his recent book about Duke Kahanamoku Capturing Kahanamoku: How a Surfing Legend and a Scientific Obsession Redefined Race and Culture, we explored how a surfing legend became the subject of a eugenics campaign in 1920s America, and how he…...