Classic Replay: Is human life intrinsically valuable? Peter Singer, Richard Weikart & Susan Blackmore

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

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From 2016: Richard Weikart, professor of history at California State University, joins Premier Unbelievable? to talk about his new book 'The Death of Humanity'. He says the loss of belief in the value of human life is leading to disastrous consequences for society. Peter Singer is an Australian ethicist who believes we should dispense with the concept of the sanctity of human life in favour of a view of 'personhood'. Humans who are less capable of having preferences, such as babies, have less claim to be kept alive. They debate whether this view of humanity is dangerous and Susan Blackmore, atheist psychologist and philosopher also joins the conversation. • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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1:24.0	Well today on Unbelievable we're asking is human life intrinsically valuable
1:30.0	and the idea that human life is intrinsically valuable is dying.
1:33.6	Side by side with our Christian culture says Richard Vichart in his new book, The Death of Humanity
1:38.8	and the Case for Life.
1:40.3	He claims that ideas that were once used to justify genocide, forced famine and compulsory sterilization are now back in vogue.
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