Religion, Ethics and the Environment
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These are recordings of Lectures in the Natural Resources Seminar 407: Religion, Ethics and the Environment from 1994-2003.
The syllabus for this course, along with short descriptions with links to each lecture, are available at https://confluence.cornell.edu/x/ayo.
These lectures were originally recorded on cassette tape or Sony Minidisk recorder, and then transcribed into MP3 files. Some were recorded with a lapel microphone, and others with a stereo microphone. The former provides a clearer recording. For the 1991 - 1994 lectures, roving wireless microphones were available for the students during discussions, resulting in a better recording of their comments. Some of the recordings are truncated do to equipment failure.
The recordings of Dr. Richard Baer's lectures are Copyright (c)2004 by Dr. Richard Baer. The recordings of Dr. James Tantillo's lectures are Copyright (c)2004 by Dr. James Tantillo. The recordings of Ms. Mical Smart's lectures are Copyright (c)2004 by Ms. Mical Smart. You may copy and use this material for non-commercial, personal use only if you agree to retain all copyright notices and other identifiers of the source of this work. You may not modify any of the text or recordings for any public or commercial purposes without written permission from Dr. Richard Baer, Dr. James Tantillo or Ms. Mical Smart.
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Animal rights, classical Liberalism, wilderness preservation, etc.; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-18)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-18)Animal rights, classical Liberalism, wilderness preservation, intergenerational justice, Derek Parfit, Peter Singer, Tom Regan, equality, speciesism, the image of God, religion in the public sphere, Robert Audi, Kramnick ... -
Reinhold Niebuhr, history of Judaism and Christianity, etc.; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-13)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-13)Reinhold Niebuhr, history of Judaism and Christianity, Paul's letter to the Galatians, God's love, freedom, writer's block at Harvard. -
The God Who Plays; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-11)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-11)The God Who Plays. -
Sin, determinism, human responsibility, Reinhold Niebuhr; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-06)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-06)Sin, determinism, human responsibility, Reinhold Niebuhr. -
What do Christianity and Judaism have to say about environmental ethics?; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-11-04)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-11-04)What do Christianity and Judaism have to say about environmental ethics, Plato, the ancient Hebrews, Deuteronomy 26:1-9, Joshua, the Decalogue, Emil Brunner. -
Wendell Berry, hyper-individualism, and faithfulness to each other and to the environment; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-30)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-30)Wendell Berry, hyper-individualism and faithfulness to each other and to the environment, the environmental effect of social pathologies, the interrelatedness of things, David Blankenhorn, fatherlessness. -
Stanley Hauerwas on Iris Murdoch: running commentary; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-28)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-28)Running commentary on Stanley Hauerwas on Iris Murdoch, the concepts of freedom, humility, and love. -
The limitations of rationalism in ethics, male and female perspectives; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-09)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-09)The limitations of rationalism in ethics, male and female perspectives, Carol Gilligan, modern feminism, the environmental effect of social pathologies. -
Science in the context of an absence of transcendent authority; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-07)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-07)Science in the context of an absence of transcendent authority, the need for authoritative community, a functional view of religion, Emil Durkheim, the Big Questions, Wilfred Cantwell Smith. -
Science, knowledge, and nature; Cornell University lecture, Natural Resources 407 (2003-10-02)
Baer, Richard (Cornell University, 2003-10-02)Allen Wood Relativism, indoctrination in K-12 schools, Ian Barbour, what motivates scientists, William Leiss The Domination of Nature, science as knowledge for knowledge's sake (middle ages) vs. knowledge for the sake of ...