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The Lyceum Podcast is a production of the Lyceum Movement, a network of community learning centers, where the city comes to think about art, history, philosophy, government, and the enduring questions of human life.

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  AI and Human Dignity with Philosopher Ali Hasan

  Aug 23, 202653 minS0

  Dr. Ali Hasan, professor of philosophy at the University of Iowa sat down with us at Tallgrass: The Des Moines Festival of Ideas to discuss the ethics of AI.<br /><br />-Should AI change the way we think about ourselves and our worth as human beings?<br />-Can AI be used to make moral decisions?<br />-Is there a place for challenge and suffering in a full human life?<br />-What do we lose if we automate too much away?<br /><br />Listen in as we explore these and other fascinatiing questions.

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  No. 12, Author Neil King on Why You Should Walk Out Your Front Door

  May 29, 202342 minS0

  Think of your morning commute, or a trip you take all the time by car or bus. Have you ever thought about what it would be like to walk it? What it would it be like to slow down to the speed of human legs and notice all of the people, plants, and things you pass each morning? What would you learn about the characters who live near you, about the layers of history all around you, about the plants and birds that make your place home, too?<br /><br />This is what Neil King did. Leaving his front door...

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  No. 11 Why Democracy? with Shadi Hamid

  Apr 10, 202349 minS0

  About a hundred years ago, Americans were gathering together, in the face of fascism and communism, to ask "Are we done with democracy?" At that time, alternatives to democracy were live options. Today, we're asking these questions again.<br /><br />What do we do when democracy delivers outcomes we don't like? How do we live in a country with so many who deeply disagree with our worldview? These are questions citizens of modern democracies need to ask themselves. <br /><br />To help us think through them, we're joined this week by Shadi Hamid, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution...

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  No. 10 with Sean Sherman, The Sioux Chef

  Mar 30, 202331 minS0

  In this episode, we talk with Chef Sean Sherman, winner of the James Beard Award for best cookbook and best new restaurant. Chef Sean has been at the forefront of a movement to creatively rediscover the traditional ingredients and food traditions indigenous to North America. Using only ingredients native to this continent, he has created a successful restaurant in Minneapolis called Owamni and founded the nonprofit NATIFS (North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems) which works to educate on traditional indigenous foodways and to promote food access in Native American communities.<br /><br />In this episode, we discuss Sean's food philosophy...

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  No. 9 with Author, Writer, and Magazine Editor Anne Snyder

  Feb 15, 202345 minS1

  Martin Luther King Jr. was an unfaithful husband and a plagiarist, Abraham Lincoln shared many of the prejudices of his time, and many of the women who lead the charge for suffrage in America were vocally racist. There is almost no figure so revered that we can’t find some fault, major or minor, in their character. This is the human condition. And yet human beings also need people to look up to. We seem to need people in our lives, in our history, in our public life, who we can model ourselves after. Moral growth often depends on moral ex...

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