[Unedited] Jacob Needleman with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2012

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Krista Tippett speaks with philosopher Jacob Needleman. As new democracies are struggling around the world, it’s easy to forget that U.S. democracy was shaped by trial and error. A conversation about the “inward work” of democracy — the conscience that shaped the American experiment. See more at http://onbeing.org/program/inward-work-democracy-jacob-needleman/222#sthash.uEEZSvS1.dpuf

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0:00.0	This is On Being's Unheard Cut.
0:02.0	I'm Christa Tippett.
0:03.0	You're listening to my unedited conversation with Jacob Needleman.
0:07.0	He's Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at San Francisco State University.
0:11.0	I spoke with him on August 6, 2003 from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota.
0:17.0	He was in the studios of Public Radio Station KQED in San Francisco.
0:22.0	This interview was included in our show, The Inward Work of Democracy.
0:26.0	Down the MP3 of that produced show at onbeing.org.
0:31.0	As you wrote your book,
0:33.0	and just have you tell some of the stories that you got inside about the spiritual sensibilities of the founders.
0:38.0	Does that make sense?
0:40.0	Yes, it's fine.
0:42.0	Don't follow your lead.
0:43.0	Alright, yeah, follow my lead.
0:45.0	This will be edited.
0:47.0	This will be edited.
0:49.0	What I think we're going to do right now is a program that has two voices,
0:53.0	you and Diana Eck of the Pluralism Project,
0:57.0	which is sort of taking that idea into the future in a way,
1:02.0	how these new religious mindsets and practices might be changing
1:09.0	or their religious sensibility.
1:12.0	I'm excited and we'll be finishing it in the fall, but yes, it will be edited down.
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