The Morningside Institute is an independent scholarly endeavor dedicated to examining human life through the liberal arts. Morningside helps scholars and students contribute to academic disciplines and understand them in light of the rich traditions that lie at their origin. The Institute also helps students integrate the beauty of culture in New York City with their search for truth in the intellectual life.
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A small community, with a distinctly international character, in a big city — that’s Morningside, one of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s nine colleges. This series is an exploration of the people that make Morningside so unique. Experience a taste of the microcosm of Hong Kong that is Morningside through stories from locals, internationals, students, faculty, and more. Hosted by Morningside Junior Fellow Alayna Lee.
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A weekly podcast of Pastor Mark Kim's sermons at Morningside ministry, located in NYC.
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Sermons from the Morningside Church of Christ in Sioux City.
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According to ancient philosophers, all human beings want to be happy. But how can we achieve this? In Books 3 and 4 of his dialogue “On the Greatest Good and Evil” (De finibus bonorum et malorum), Cicero and his interlocutor, the Stoic Cato, discuss what guarantees a person’s supreme happiness. Is it enough to be a morally good person (as the Stoic…
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Side 8: Mentoring in Education
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Learning at a university takes place not only in the classroom, but through relationships with the faculty that work there. Morningside is lucky to have many fellows who serve as dependable mentors for our students. Hear from Professor Nelson Chen and Professor Lowell Ling on how they view mentorship and atypical strategies in education.…
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Side 7: Defining the Self
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Hong Kong is a city at the centre of many crossroads. For some students, labels like “Chinese” or “Hong Kong” don’t feel fully accurate to their experiences. Join us as we discuss what it means to be from a place and how that impacts subsequent self reflections.Morningside College által
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Side 6: Service Learning Abroad
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As part of Morningside’s general education program, all students are required to participate in some type of service project. Some students choose to join the college’s international service learning trips over the summer. This year, the college led trips to Rabat, Morocco, Athens, Greece, and York, England. Three students from each trip share thei…
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Tradition describes courage, moderation, justice, and prudence as the cardinal virtues (a list going back to Plato) and faith, hope, and charity as the theological virtues (a list going back to Saint Paul). Can we conceive of hope as a virtue, as a good quality for people to have, without a theological framework — without any notion of salvation? O…
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Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not only an issue; it is a fundamental part of the human condition, and, alongside death, the most consequential event in human life. Yet it remains dramatically unexplored. Although we have long intellec…
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Side 5: The Changing Power of Language and Storytelling
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For Morningside’s 2023-2024 One Book Programme, the author of Innards – a collection of short stories set in Soweto, South Africa – Magogodi oaMphela Makhene visited Hong Kong. During her trip, she discussed her book with Junior Fellow Alayna Lee and her journey as a writer and a storyteller. Her work on Innards and her social enterprise “Love As a…
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On October 9, 2023 the Morningside Institute and the Galileo Center at Columbia Law School hosted Joshua Katz (AEI) for the last lecture in our series Language Rights and Wrongs. This series explores the relationship between world and word, honing in on ancient texts, namely Homer, Plato, and the Bible. This evening's conversation was not about the…
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Does language contain truth in itself? And whether or not it does, at what level are the words we use natural, and at what level are they a matter of convention? Plato’s Cratylus provides the earliest in-depth discussion of these matters, and it turns out that we can learn something about our own linguistic problems today by considering this neglec…
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This fall, the Morningside Institute and the Galileo Center at the Columbia Law School hosted Joshua Katz (AEI) for a three-part lecture series on the relationship between word and world. The series focused on ancient texts—namely, Homer, Plato, and the Bible—and what these reveal about the nature (or artificiality) of language. On September 26, 20…
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In his famous Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Shunryu Suzuki writes, “In the Beginner’s Mind there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few.” These words have served as a guide for James Valentini during his time as a professor of Chemistry and then much-beloved dean of Columbia College. As he has developed it, the concept of beginner’…
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Side 4: Turning Research Into Comics
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Every year, Morningside chooses a book for its "One Book" program. The 2022-2023 One Book choice was Lissa, a graphic novel by Sherine Hamdy and Coleman Nye about medical intervention and the 2011 Egyptian revolution. In this episode, Hamdy and Nye talk with Junior Fellow Kait Roukey about their research in kidney transplants in Egypt and breast ca…
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Stay Encouraged (May 21, 2023)
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Stay Encouraged (May 21, 2023) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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Side 3: University Friendships, Then and Now
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The friends we make in university are a vital part of the Morningside experience. Listen to two groups of friends, one made up of Morningside alumni and the other of current students, talk about their relationships with each other and the impact it has had on their university life.Morningside College által
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Go To Galilee (April 9, 2023)
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Go To Galilee (April 9, 2023) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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Sifting And Sorting (March 26, 2023)
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Sifting And Sorting (March 26, 2023) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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Side 2: Home Away From Home
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Many members of the Morningside community are international students. Listen to some of their stories, as they share why they decided to study abroad and how they've maintained a community miles away from home.Morningside College által
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Side 1: The Who, What, and Why of Morningside
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Morningside is one of the nine colleges at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Listen to current and former Morningside faculty explain how Morningside was conceived and why having a small community as a university student is important.Morningside College által
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Thomas Aquinas's ethical system is framed in terms of evaluating an individual's intentional actions, which may be good or bad depending on their conformity with the natural law. Can such a framework make sense of the notion that social structures and practices can also be just or unjust, as in the contemporary notion of structural racism? On Thurs…
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We instinctively think of images as things we create, control, and consume. But in this lecture, Prof. Thomas Pfau (Duke) argued that our encounter with images and the visible world as a whole serves as a test of our spiritual and moral condition. Following a brief overview of his recent book on this subject, Prof. Pfau's lecture considered three i…
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Are some books “great” in a way others are not? Can a core curriculum represent all the members of a university community? What should students get out of their classes in the Core? How should we justify liberal education today? These questions shaped many universities' curricula, including Columbia's Core, and today are at the center of debates ab…
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As American politics descends into a battle of anger and hostility between two groups called "left" and "right," people increasingly ask: What is the essential difference between these two ideological groups? In The Myth of Left and Right, Hyrum Lewis and Verlan Lewis provide the surprising answer: nothing. As the authors argue, there is no endurin…
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Many scholars have held that Christianity created a new kind of religious belief and devotion, unlike the ritualistic, legal, and cultural religious practice widespread throughout the Roman Empire. But in a new book, Jacob Mackey (Occidental) draws on cognitive theory to argue that, despite having little to do with faith or salvation, real belief u…
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In the past, a lawyer might have taken for granted, as one ABA report explained, that “one of the highest services the lawyer can render to society is to appear in court on behalf of client whose causes are in disfavor with the general public." But not today, when lawyers across the profession increasingly face boycotts, protests, and public shamin…
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How to Live in the Earthly City: Augustine on Loves, Lies, and the Politics of Perfection
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In this talk, Prof. Veronica Ogle (Assumption University) helps us understand how Augustine sees the earthly city as parodying the city of God, a process that produces illusions and lies that entrap its inhabitants in a nihilistic dreamworld. She explores how Augustine’s critique of the earthly city uncovers the self-love and lust for domination th…
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Seeds Of Easter Faith (April 17, 2022)
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Seeds Of Easter Faith (April 17, 2022) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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Ross Douthat: What Is the Common Good in a Pluralistic Society?
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As our society continues to fracture, writers across the political spectrum have repeatedly invoked the classical concept of the common good. Thinkers such as Jacques Maritain and Yves Simon offered robust accounts of the common good in a pluralistic, democratic society. Yet frequently, today’s invocations of the common good dodge questions about p…
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The Theological Framework of Secular Society — Eric Nelson
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It seems as though our cultural and moral debates in America and Europe take place between a secular side and a traditional, frequently religious, side. Secular liberalism is seen as consciously moving away from religious convictions of the past toward a more fair and objective viewpoint. But some scholars argue that the framework of secular libera…
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Classical Allusions in Contemporary African American Poetry — Chiyuma Elliott
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African American literature has a rich tradition of both using and discarding the classics. In the 20th century, the Black feminist poet Audre Lorde argued that, “[t]he master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” and Gwendolyn Brooks, the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was inspired by Black Arts Movement poe…
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Taking Disagreement Seriously: Does Relativism Follow from Cultural Diversity? — Michele Moody-Adams
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The problem of relativism has presented itself ever since Herodotus introduced his readers to the astounding variety of religious beliefs and moral judgements among human communities. Philosophers soon began to consider the proposition that there is no objective truth and falsity, right and wrong, but that all of these are products of different con…
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Reading Augustine at a Time of Chaos — Russell Hittinger
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In August 410 Alaric, King of the Goths, entered Rome with his army, and proceeded to carry out a rather impressive version of a “sack”: murder, mayhem, theft, and desecration of churches and consecrated virgins. St. Augustine, then the bishop of Hippo Regius in North Africa, soon received a large number of refugees, both pagan and Christian. These…
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Plato on the Relativism of Protagoras — Katja Vogt
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The Ancient Greek Sophists kickstarted moral philosophy in the West with the provocative idea of relativism: that there is no objective right and wrong. Plato formulated and refuted the relativism of the Sophist Protagoras in his dialogue Theatetus, and this engagement remains arguably the most interesting discussion of relativism in the history of…
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Resurrecting Justice: How Can a Broader Vision of Justice Heal Society's Wounds? — Daniel Philpott
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It is time to rethink justice. Dominant in the West is the classic definition of justice as the constant will to render another his due. In the modern world, this definition has come to mean rights and retribution. However, based on his experience as an activist in Kashmir and the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Prof. Daniel Philpott (Notre Dame) fin…
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Thanks Be To God? (September 19, 2021)
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Thanks Be To God? (September 19, 2021) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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Creative Creatures (September 12, 2021)
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Creative Creatures (September 12, 2021) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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Persistence In Prayer and Action (August 29, 2021)
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Persistence In Prayer and Action (August 29, 2021) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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What Does Game Theory Say about the Philosophy of Religion? — Lara Buchak
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Popular theories like game theory try to explain why people find it rational to accept risk when making decisions, especially economic ones. But as thinkers such as Kierkegaard and Pascal argued, accepting risk factors into the greatest questions of life, such as whether or not to profess faith in a particular religious creed or philosophy. Join us…
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Much has been written recently about Arendt's political observation that totalitarian masses would "believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true," but her views on space exploration and astronomy have attracted less attention, even if she ranks "the invention of the telescope" alongside the Protestant…
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Can You Separate Morality and Politics? Hume's Politics of Humanity — Aaron Zubia
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Must public actors sacrifice their principles in order to advance their desired political ends? Realists, who argue that the messiness of political life makes moral purity impossible, accuse moralists of having their heads in the clouds. But Hume reminds us that one need not ignore political reality in order to promote a humane political culture. T…
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The Problems of Acedia: Some Historical and Contemporary Reflections on Distraction and Rest
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Religious thinkers and contemporary scientists have seen acedia as a fundamental problem, as it opposes the goal of rest in relationship to the divine and enjoying the goodness of human relationships. Drawing upon Evagrius, Aquinas, and contemporary psychology, Prof. Chris Jones (Barry University) will offer advice on how to identify acedia in the …
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Violence and the Spread of Islam in Late Antique Christian Societies — Christian Sahner
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You may watch this lecture along with Dr. Sahner’s PowerPoint presentation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/96CmUeeNLls How did the medieval Middle East transform from a majority-Christian world to a majority-Muslim world, and what role did violence play (or not play) in this process? This lecture explores how Christians across the early Islamic caliph…
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Using History Well: How Past Discord Can Help Us Understand a Divided Present — James Hankins & Allen Guelzo
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Many wonder what will come of the deep divisions in American society. What lessons do the Civil War and other historic periods of conflict offer for our own divided time? How can we use history well to understand the present? Join us for a conversation with two of America's greatest historians, Allen Guelzo (Princeton) and James Hankins (Harvard), …
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What It Means to Be Human: Taking the Body Seriously in Contemporary Ethics — O. Carter Snead
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You may watch this lecture along with Dr. Snead's PowerPoint presentation on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Uab1SpYgAVI The natural limits of the human body make us vulnerable and therefore dependent, throughout our lives, on others. Yet American law and policy disregard these stubborn facts, with statutes and judicial decisions that presume people to b…
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Narcissus, the Serpent, and the Saint: Living Humanely in a World of Artificial Intelligence
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Long before humanoid robots look like us, we will be able to have conversations with our smartphones that will evoke from us all the empathy that adults habitually reserve for fellow human beings. That is, we will own assistants and companions that will feel to us like persons but (unlike pets) will be entirely at our disposal. With assistance from…
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The Arabic Roots of Medieval Scholasticism
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The translation of Avicenna and other writers of the Islamic Golden Age into Latin was one of the most formative events in the history of Western Philosophy. Professor Therese Cory (Notre Dame) provides a glimpse of the “detective story” of how knowledge was transmitted from Muslim scholars to the European scholastics. She also discusses (24:48) ho…
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Faith and the Big Bang Cosmos of Georges Lemaître
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In 1930 the Catholic priest and physicist Georges Lemaître published a revolutionary view of the cosmos as one with a finite age and a definite beginning. But how he got there is as interesting a story as the idea of the Big Bang itself, and reveals just how profoundly this one man of faith and science set the stage for modern cosmology, the study …
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Room Enough For Everyone (Emily Goldthwaite Fries; November 29, 2020)
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Room Enough For Everyone (Emily Goldthwaite Fries; November 29, 2020) by Edina Morningside Community ChurchEdina Morningside Community Church által
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The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors: Cosmology and Creation
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This is the final lecture in a four-part series by Prof. William Carroll (Oxford) titled “Evolution, Cosmology, and Creation: From Darwin and Hawking to Aquinas”. This lecture explores recent developments in cosmology and the problems that would follow from identifying the concept of creation with that of a beginning. These lectures were presented …
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Transcendence, Providence, and Divine Agency in Nature
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This is the third lecture in a four-part series by Prof. William Carroll (Oxford) titled “Evolution, Cosmology, and Creation: From Darwin and Hawking to Aquinas”. This lecture explores whether it is possible to have an idea of God as providential (i.e. as someone whose Will is never frustrated) in the context of an evolving universe of contingency …
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Creation and a Self-Sufficient Universe
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This is the second lecture in a four-part series by Prof. William Carroll (Oxford) titled “Evolution, Cosmology, and Creation: From Darwin and Hawking to Aquinas”. This lecture explores whether the autonomy of natural processes is compatible with God being the complete cause of all that is. These lectures are presented from September 23 to October …
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