The Great Conversation
Tue, 06/29/2010 - 8:13am — webadmin
This weekly “global dialogue” is designed so that students and adults can either attend regularly each week or drop in from time to time. We want to get you excited about discussing the great ideas that matter in today’s changing world. Here’s a sampling of the kinds of provocative questions we enjoy discussing together:
Date:
Repeats every week until Sun Jan 30 2011 .
Fri, 01/07/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Fri, 01/14/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Fri, 01/21/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Fri, 01/28/2011 - 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Ongoing Discussion of “the Great Ideas” as We Encounter the Best that Has Been Thought and Written
Rich Lang serves as the facilitator.
This weekly “global dialogue” is designed so that students and adults can either attend regularly each week or drop in from time to time. We want to get you excited about discussing the great ideas that matter in today’s changing world. Here’s a sampling of the kinds of provocative questions we enjoy discussing together:
- Who are some of history’s most creative and influential visionaries, thinkers, writers, artists, scientists, leaders and reformers? What are their great achievements and what can we learn from them?
- What is the nature of reality and of the world in which we live? What can we know, and how can we know it? What are our sources of inspiration and authority? How do we deal with the “boundary experiences” of mystery, ambiguity, enigma, irony, absurdity, plurality and paradox?
- What is a human being? Does life have a transcendent meaning and purpose, or are meaning and purpose existentially constructed? In today’s world what is happening within the institutions of religion, education, arts, entertainment, science, medicine, technology, business, finance, military, government and law? How ought we to live and treat one another? What is the basis for ethics? What is the good life? What is the good society? What is our origin and destiny? Where is history going? What are our ultimate concerns?