A weekly podcast dedicated to the affirmation of human dignity reflecting on ideas related to individualism and freedom for the advancement of human flourishing. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Talk given on January 31, 2024 to the Little Rock Water Reclamation Authority morning leadership development meeting. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Keynote address given at the 84th Annual Stuggart Chamber of Commerce Membership Meeting and Awards Banquet. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Dr. Fletcher is interviewed by Debby Winters, Legal Counsel in Northwest Arkansas about starting a nonprofit. This discussion was recorded a the New Generation Humanities Conference in Little Rock, Arkansas on March 7th, 2024--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support…
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Talk given to Conway Kiwanis about Hope and how it serves to make us better individuals who are in the pursuit of meaning. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Plenary talk to the AR Lions MidWinter Forum. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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We close out our discussion looking at Lebron James and economic distribution --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Looking at concepts such as the “difference principle” and “entitlement theory” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Opening thoughts on Economic Justice --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Equality, Equity, and Discrimination Conclusion
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Final lecture given at Philander Smith University --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Equality, Equity, and Discrimination Pt 3
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Part 3 of 4 lectures given at Philander Smith University--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Equality, Equity, and Discrimination Pt 2
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Continuing our discussion on equality. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Equality, Discrimination, and Equity: Part 1
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Introduction to the concepts of equality, ethics, and discrimination. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” Kant --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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A opening look at the moral theory related to duties and obligations --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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“Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Intro lecture on Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Finishing our talk on utility and happiness--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Engaging with Black Panther, Kendrick Lamar, and Denzel Washington --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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A lecture and discussion on ethical or moral relativism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Concluding thoughts on ethics in general--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Introductory thoughts on Ethics given at Philander Smith University --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Listen as Dr. Phillip Fletcher serves as a panelist at the Catholic Charities Summer Institute. The panel discussion led by Father Jeff Herbert discusses how civil discourse can be reclaimed. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Special Guest Nicolle Fletcher joins us as we react to the documents try on Hillsongs--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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We continue to reflect on the importance of civility and the consequences of incivility within a group --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Reflecting on the passing of Timothy Keller and Civility.
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I don’t know exactly when it happened but there was a point in time when we as Americans lost the ability to communicate with civility with one another regarding vitally important concerns of the human experience. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support…
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Local Leadership for the American Black Community
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Reflecting on Glen Loury discussion about who speaks for American Blacks. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Keynote address at the University of Central Arkansas. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Applying personalism in the workplace. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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What we see in the news are examples of depersonalization and nihilism. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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“I’ve searched high and low, far and wide. The only diverse and inclusive place on the planet is the grave.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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The human being is a person who can not be replaced. The human being is a subject who can inspire wonder. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Welcome to Season 8 of Humanity Matters.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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The final episode for 2022! We hope you are encouraged by this episode. See you next year! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Legendary Quotes: The Man in the Arena (Part 2)
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Continuing our investigation of President Roosevelt’s famous words, “The Man in the Arena.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Legendary Quotes: The Man in the Arena (Part 1)
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort w…
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Our Human Origin and the Relationship to Compassion, Conflict, and Advocacy
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Lecture given at Hendrix College on Monday November 7, 2022--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Take a moment and reflect on life and get more clarity on what has happened and what can be ahead. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Special Episode: Human Dignity and Community Development
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Dr. Fletcher offers remarks at the weekly Conway Kiwanis meeting on human dignity and community development. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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3. The time given to each of us is so precious. Each of us can decide to learn, to mature, and choose to have an impact on others. The time given to us will be fraught with disappointment and questions but it is there as Gandalf told an assuming hero…. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”--- Support this podcast:…
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Legendary Quotes: The Impact of Your Profession
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Max Ehrman: “Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.” Desiderata--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Legendary Quotes: PTSD and Filling the Moment with Purpose
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“If you can fill the unforgiving minute, With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run.” “If” by Ruyard Kipling https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46473/if------ Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Legendary Quote: Giving Up is Emotional and Physical
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If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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Legendary Quote: Meeting Triumph and Disaster in the Context of PTSD and Anxiety
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We continue with Ruyard Kipling’s poem, “If.” If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two impostors just the same;”PTSD: A disorder in which a person has difficulty recovering after experiencing or witnessing a terrifying event.--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support…
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Legendary Quote: Mental health in Chaotic Environments
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“Rudyard Kipling is one of the best-known of the late Victorian poets and story-tellers. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1907. He is known for his 1894 literature piece The Jungle Book. “If you can keep your head when all about you, Are losing theirs and blaming it on you..”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/p…
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Mr. Miyagi: “It is okay to lose to opponent, must not lose to fear…You stay focused…Your best karate still inside…now time to let out.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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-Who was William Wallace? 1270[3] – 23 August 1305) was a Scottish knight who became one of the main leaders during the First War of Scottish Independence. Wallace defeated an English army at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in September 1297. He was appointed Guardian of Scotland and served until his defeat at the Battle of Falkirk in July 1298. In A…
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“Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory of relativity, but he also made important contributions to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcast…
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Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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“Live your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life.”--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanitymatters/support
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