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Every Thursday Erin Moninn and Cristofer Pereyra have a Clubhouse conversation about what being a Catholic leader for civil society means. https://tliprogram.org/ Tepeyac Leadership Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to civic leadership development for lay Catholic professionals. Mission: To deliver civic leadership development to lay Catholic professionals in the U.S. and beyond. Tepeyac Leadership Initiative (TLI) is the name of a civic leadership development program for lay Catholic professionals. TLI is the flagship program for Tepeyac Leadership Inc. Vision: With a spirit of ...

Published anonymously in 1689, John Lockes Two Treatises of Civil Government is a seminal work of political philosophy that challenges the foundations of absolute monarchy. In the First Treatise, Locke launches a robust critique of Sir Robert Filmers Patriarcha, which defends the idea of a divinely-sanctioned, hereditary rule. However, it is the Second Treatise that has left a lasting impact, articulating a vision of civil society grounded in natural rights and contract theory. Locke explores the state of nature and the emergence of property and civilization, ultimately asserting that true ...

Two authors with decades of experience promoting human rights argue that, as the world changes around us, rights hardly imaginable today will come into being.

On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro", and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event.

In today's uncertain times we find ourselves as a society fighting on multiple fronts spiritually, mentally, and physically. This podcast dives into this multi front war domestically here in America and we discuss ways to navigate through the matrix in an undeclared Civil war.

First published in 1849, this essay argues that individuals have rights and duties in relation to their government. Motivated by his disgust over both slavery and the Mexican-American War, Thoreau argued that individuals must not permit nor enable their government to act against their own consciences. This version of "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" was recorded as part of Dreamscape's Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience.

En podd om att tillsammans leva det samhälle vi vill ha. Om ickevåld och civil olydnad. Postprotest och performativ samhällsförändring. Forskning och filosofi. Per Herngren bor i Hammarkullen. Han har gett ut tio böcker på fyra språk, och han är utsedd till Årets Folkbildare i Sverige. Sedan 1985 har Per lett ickevåldsträning i Europa, Centralasien, Mellanöstern samt i Sydamerika. War Resisters International utvalde Per till en av världens mest erfarna ickevåldstränare. Han har suttit i fängelse för civil olydnad i USA, England och Sverige. Han är främst aktiv med ...

Hosted by Andrew Salisbury and Eden Cohen, An Attempt at Civil Discourse is an ambitious experiment in thoughtfully debating some of the most profound questions facing our world. We tackle a wide range of subjects, from free will and cognitive biases, to renewable energy and geopolitical rifts. Our objective is to inspire knowledge and curiosity in ourselves and our listeners. And sometimes, we might even reach an agreement on something.