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Art, Technology, Finance, and the Individual in Society | A Conversation with Philosopher Mark C. Taylor
Category: Business
Duration: 01:44:00
Publish Date: 2017-03-13 01:00:00
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In Episode 3 of Hidden Forces, host Demetri Kofinas speaks with philosopher and theologian Mark C. Taylor. Mark is the Chair of the Department of Religion and Co-Director of the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life. A leading figure in debates about post-modernism, Taylor has written on topics ranging from philosophy, religion, literature, art, and architecture to education, media, science, technology, and economics. He has authored 30 books, among which include Journeys to Selfhood: Hegel and Kierkegaard, About Religion: Economies of Faith in Virtual Culture, Confidence Games: Money and Markets in a World without Redemption, The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture, and my personal favorite, Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left.

 Professor Taylor and I cover everything from religion, to finance, to art, to technology. Most importantly, we take this journey as individuals, exploring the paths blazed for us by Luther and his Protestant Reformation, building on the works of Ockham and Thomas Aquinas. We will learn about economic philosophers like Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek, who addressed the problems of non-linearity, information networks, and how complex systems create order from chaos. We will look at how technology for all its benefits, still leaves something to be desired. A fundamental contradiction perhaps, in its application to the human experience. Lastly, we will ask the question, what is it all for? What does it all mean? Where are we going, and why the great hurry? 

Producer & Host: Demetri Kofinas

Editor: Connor Lynch

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