Moderator: Mr. Eugene Meyer, President & CEO of the Federalist Society ** you do not have permission to see this link **

Robert P. George, Prof. of Jurisprudence
Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions / Princeton Univ.

Cornel West, Prof. of the Practice of Public Philosophy / Harvard Univ.

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Robert George
Commitment to truth-seeking

“Honesty and Courage” op-ed in the Boston Globe (also as audio on Madison’s Notes)

Honesty and courage to speak the truth.

750k deaths – Civil War toll

Cornel West
Love is not reducible to public policy.
The Socratic legacy of Athens is indispensable.

Steefen
I’m not sure where there is taught in the undergraduate curriculum.
I read some Socratic dialogues on my own.
Maybe there were some passages of Socratic dialogues in Philosophy class.

Cornel West
Adventures of Ideas by Alfred North Whitehead

Identity level discussions vs Discussions at the level of integrity, decency, honesty, truth-seeking, justice-seeking

The public space, the sacred public space where citizens can enter without humiliation (regardless of whatever) and engage in discussion.

Socrates never cries but Jeremiah cries and Jesus weeps.

The US has a political system that is fragile. It is now at its nadir (its lowest point), comparable to the low point at the time of Lincoln. Beware, we have no Lincoln coming around the corner.

It is a spiritual and moral decay that needs to be addressed.

Robert George
Pick up at 17:40 of 1:33:55 (my second time watching this)