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Hillsdale Dialogues 08-07-2015 Lincoln-Douglas Debates

Hillsdale Dialogues

Hillsdale College

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4.72.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Dr. Arnn and Hugh Hewitt conclude their series on…

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On the new episode of the Larry Arn show, Hillsdale College President Larry Arn

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sits down with theologian and CS Lewis scholar Michael Ward for a one-on-one

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conversation. How do we explain and destroy ourselves as a species?

0:14.4

It's quite a difficult thing to achieve actually, because the Tao, the conscience is so deeply

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embedded in all of us that even as we try to escape it we

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we just find ourselves willy-nilly relying on certain aspects of it one or two shreds of the dow that we've retained.

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Listen to this exclusive interview with Michael Ward right now,

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only available on the Larry Arne Show.

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Find it on the Hillsdale College Podcast Network at

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podcast dot Hillsdale dot edu or wherever you get your audio and subscribe to

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receive new episodes delivered right to your device. That's Podcast. Hillsdale. Edu. Morning glory in evening grace America, it's Hewitt on the Hilldale Dialogue the hour in which we go back through the biggest discussion, debates,

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and books of the last 2,000 plus years with Dr. Lairon President Hilldale College and his

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colleagues, all of the Hillsdale dialogues available at

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Hugh for Hillsdale dot com all of Hillsdale's many offerings available

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at hillsdale dot edu and today is the day we wrap up our consideration of the

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seven epic Lincoln Douglas debates on the day

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after the first Republican debate just a little bit different Dr Arne from October 15th

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1858 in Alton, Illinois where two men went at it for three hours at the conclusion

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of their seven encounters.

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Then yesterday with 16 people spread over two debates in three hours, you can't help but feel impoverished when we consider the

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Lincoln-Douglas debates well turn the hours into minutes and that's exactly the

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same it's like dog ears. Well, putting aside the debates of last night, I just got done talking with our

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