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Wisdom in the Age of Information: Maria Popova

By Maria Popova — 2014

“We live in a world awash of information, but we seem to face a growing scarcity of wisdom,” states Maria Popova, Founder of the website Brain Pickings. Popova believes it’s the storyteller’s role to interpret information and shape it into wisdom for the rest of the culture to share.

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Science Can Answer Moral Questions

Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam Harris argues that science can—and should—be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life.

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Sam Harris
2010
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The Ideas of Socrates

In this lecture we examine the ideas of Socrates.

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Socrates
2013
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