nineteenth century writer philosopher and a rabble on xander hurts and is often described as the founder of russian socialism he started questioning that sorry stop salute isn't in his university years he's ready made he and almost permanent exile he left for the west in avian flu seven and spent the remainder of his life there becoming one of the most prominent thinkers of he's time hurts and set up russia's first free press his newspaper. or the bell was published in london in the mid nineteenth century it had to be smuggled to russia. it was forbidden but nevertheless had tremendous success it is said to have been read by the tsar the album nation of serve them and russia is considered to have been inspired by her turn and he's a newspaper person and my the west and he's only years but the longer he lived in europe and the disillusioned he became of capitalism and civilization he's later works that have served this inspiration for junior ations of revolutionaries in russia and globally the british playwright tom stoppard has recently revived interest in harsens work on intellectuals w

in russia but also in the west for example he was the favorite thinker british philosopher. and he's the principal character in a trilogy the coast of utopia by a famous british playwright tom stoppard but what do you think makes her so much interesting for the western intelligence and for the western public well it's a very good question the matter of fact i think he hasn't been a very interesting picture person and very recently largely thanks to mr starr. the opportunity to meet him in london at the last performance of the coast of utopia there the what they call the marathon performance for all three of the players were played together it was a fascinating seven hours and something that i think is even a little more than you go to the theatre about noon and you get out about eleven and think of a great. day. it's quite quite an experience but there are some who isn't well known hasn't been but it's becoming more so i think largely due to the play. of course he played a large role i think in russian history and in fact in the russian revolution but it's not well known esp

a much more philosophical defense of sufism. so finally, well, like the monastic path in christianity or other areas, religions have to take care of their mystics, and so what we find here is that the path is embraced and we're allowed to see it. so let me let a true sufi sheik speak just a bit about his experience. >> [translator) >> we take from jesus christ this- upon him his humility in dressing. humility in eating. i will mean the whole knowledge. nobody can become a mystic, a sufi, without having a deep knowledge. we love those who hate us. we bless who curse us. we do not keep hatred against anyone in the world. we're against rules. and we do not even curse those who are fermenting. we hope that god will illuminate his way to the right. >> you speak of love and humility in the sufi tradition. do you feel that then the violence that we sometimes see in the holy land is very painful, very difficult? >> [speaking in arabic] [translation] >> violence cannot emerge from people- it cannot emerge from people who love god, in any

spotlight the interview shall call to another los angeles program as a tribute to great russian philosopher and thinker alexander kurtz answer the sometimes told the first russian political blogger in the middle of the nineteenth century by a weekly column called the battle published london was as influential among liberal minded people in russia as facebook a larger like today researches claim hurts and created a political background for the abolishment of serve in the shop and call him the father of russian socialist this weekend russia celebrates hope since two hundred has descended from all over the world came to moscow and one of them is in my studio today mr michael harrison the writer's great great grandson living in the us . the. nineteenth century writer and alexander is often described as the founder of russian socialism he started questioning that saris absolutism as in his university years he's ready made him an almost permanent exile he left for the west in eighty seven and spent the remainder of his life there becoming one of the most prominent thinkers of he's time hertz and

i have not heard why we should not codify these protections, beyond a philosophical idea that this is under the purview of the police commission. why does a philosophical argument carry more weight than the safety and civil rights of who we represent? if you believe in this legislation, you believe it is redundant, another argument i have heard -- what is the harm in codify in this for the future? another argument i have heard is this is not an issue in san francisco today. but we have evidence released recently. the fbi has been covertly gathering intelligence on individuals and religious leaders in san francisco purely based on their religious beliefs. this is in the tales from the 30's and 70's, where something that happened in new york city and new jersey is happening here today. we want to ensure to date and in the future that our san francisco employees will never engaged in this type of racial profiling, which does not make our city and the safer, but instead engenders mistrust, fear, and the anger and frustration you have all been hearing from our community members. innocent m

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in 2001 he authored socrates' cafe which was an african dialogue on questions of philosophical and other social import. and unquestioning and discussion. there are 600 socrates' cafes operating around the world where people gathered to discuss important philosophical issues. "constitution cafe" began as an effort to address constitutional literacy and apathy. what chris refers to as the untouchable nature of the u.s. constitution. jefferson would be appalled by the fact the we made the constitution scriptural. jefferson in talking about the constitution says this. some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and been one like the arc of the covenant too sacred to the touch. they ascribe to wisdom more than human and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. but as new discoveries are made and new truths disclosed and opinions change with a change of circumstances institutions must advance also and keep pace with the times. jefferson certain we fought that a republic works when people are engaged in their own government including the finding their own constitution. he f

perhaps the most important nonpresidential election of this decade, they're talking about the philosophicalpinnings to this notion of how much public employees are going to are to contribute. >> the largest philosophical issue is who controls things in government? do the taxpayers or public employee union bosses? because in the past the cycle has been that taxpayers' money goes to pay for legitimate wages and benefits, but on top of that, union dues. those dues in part go for political activities that support candidates who ultimately say, we'll spend more money on more benefits and more employees and stick it to the taxpayers. there's nobody in that cycle who stand up for the taxpayers. >> reporter: the unions say membership has safeguarded the rights and benefits of workers. >> scott walker has to go! >> reporter: once the law passed >> recall paul walker. >> reporter: -- nearly a million petitions were signed to have the governor stand for re-election after a year and a half in office. campaign money is pouring in from both sides. all told, almost $38 million was spent on the 2010. walke

there's a great philosophical divide.great contrast in a presidential election, it's going to be a big time race. obama care, immigration, energy, taxes, spending, deficitses they have very profound differences on these issues. i like philosophical differences between the candidates, it's what the people have a right to expect. they're going to get it come november. >> tell me about mitt romney's mood at the moment. how is he feeling himself, do you think? >> i was with him last weeking as you know, he's here in maryland. i asked him, you don't look tired. i have been through statewide campaigns. quite frankly, i'm a person that believes this prolonged campaign has helped him be a better debater. the dollars are the down side, he's a sharp candidate. he has to be against president obama. he's a great debater, tough candidate. mitt romney is there, he has the skills set not only to compete, but win. he has the skills set the country is looking for, particularly when it comes to creating private sector jobs. >> no one dispu

about the classical education, some were self-educated yet they had read widely of the political philosophers. they had read locke, they had read others. compare that to the current american population. how long and how deeply have they felt this. how much have they lifted up unselfishness and what we might call civic virtue. in other words, not the position of don't tax me, tax the other person. don't cut my benefits, cut someone else's benefits. are we prepared as a generation to assume the sovereign power that jefferson talked about, to rewrite our constitution again? >> i get to answer that question, that's great. you're taking notes, take this down. one of the points i wanted to make is that if you have problems with us, they had problems with them. never forget that. that's the original ism that we should channel. that is the sense of risk and danger and the lack of trust they had in each other. if you think republicans and democrats can't get along, that's not a question here in oklahoma because there aren't any more democrats. [ laughter ] well, people in jefferson's age had profound

those 10 principles we do with economic issues, the social issues, insecurity and defense and philosophical issues the role of the individual, family, governme nt, to create the optimal system of government for happiness and prosperity. >>host: what are the key is? >> the issue economically is first of all, in order to be sovereign meeting not living by another but to own, became from the system the crown had ultimate title they all lived by the ground. now of course, it has caught up to us but to that was the founders' conception. you can own your own home, land, education, retir ement. even food and clothing, shelter, to prepare and later that you can have control over. also an issue of jobs. with regulation and taxation to accumulate wealth. one partisan come and the a other is to reduce the outflow through taxes and cash and cost-of-living. but focusing on the family as the basic unit rather than individuals. we look at the tax system not just personal finance but a balanced budget to play into the sovereign key is. economically to accumulate wealth and pass that odd. >>host: why do you

perhaps the most important non-presidential election of this decade, they're talking about the philosophicalderpinnings to this notion of how much public employees are going to have to contribute. >> the larger philosophical issue is who controls things in government? do the taxpayers or do the public employee union bosses? because in the past the cycle has been that taxpayers' money goes to pay for legitimate wages and benefits but on top of that union dues those dues go in part for political activities then support candidates who ultimately say we'll spend more money on more benefits and more employees and stick it to the taxpayers. there's nobody in that cycle who stands up for the taxpayers. >> reporter: the unions say membership has safeguard it had rights and benefits of workers. >> scott walker's got to go! >> reporter: once the law passed... >> recall walker! >> reporter: ...nearly a million petitions were signed to force the governor to stand for reelection after only a year and a half in office. campaign money is poring into wisconsin from both sides. all told, almost $38 million w

education i mean there's all this philosophical melissa lost through education record to america constantly rates lower and lower every year on education education is a disaster bill bill that was put in as the head of the department of patient in the recent history of those on a platform of let's destroy and education the united states this goes back to ties this goes back to the sixty's when the teachers' unions really became ascended so instead he had gone reagan came into office we had some of the best educational outcomes in the world look it up i have to look it has steadily declined since the reagan revolution since bill bennett went in who ran for president on the platform of destroying the department of education so ronald reagan put him in charge of the part of education excellent idea it department of education came about as a pet as a payback from jimmy carter to the national education association art of education to people out there came about because in poor parts of this country there was there were no money there was no money in there were no resources to meet the educationa

to play the duty to really play at the plate the important thing is that iran does that all the philosopher of the right who is immensely popular among bass numbers of people or books that are not hundreds of hundred thousand she can't say that back anybody else on the right or the left for that matter but you have billionaires who are getting money to colleges and requiring you know one of the strings that goes along with their money i believe it's over one hundred twenty schools now is that they have to teach iran they have to give iran out of their students you have ryan who requires all his staff members to read i mean rahm i mean with this giant and wealthy right wing machine pushing iran how could you not expect to see some sort of a response you know a lot of people reading your books and things. there's no question this is big machine this is speed organization which is pushing very well funded organization which is pushing on real.

have to put the teacher really plowed at the plate you poor thing is that iran does the all the philosopher of the right who is immensely popular among bass numbers of people or books that are in the hundreds and hundreds of thousands you can't say that anybody else on the right or the left for that matter but you have billionaires who are getting money into colleges and requiring you know one of the strings that goes along with their money i believe it's over one hundred twenty schools now is that they have to teach iran they have to give iran out of their students you have paul ryan who requires all his staff members to read iran i mean with this giant and wealthy right wing machine pushing iran how could you not expect to see some sort of a response you know a lot of people reading your books and things. well there's no question is this big machine is history organization which is pushing very well funded organization which is pushing on rand's philosophy but i think that in order to stem rand you've got to realize it's not just that if that's all there was to it she would be as powerful

commercial galleries around union square, and it is because of their core mission, to increase social, philosophicalual change my isolated individuals and communities. >> it gives a statement, the idea that a significant art of any kind, in any discipline, creates change. >> it is philosophy that attracted david linger to mount a show at meridian. >> you want to feel like your work this summer that it can do some good. i felt like at meridian, it could do me good. we did not even talk about price until the day before the show. of course, meridian needs to support itself and support the community. but that was not the first consideration, so that made me very happy. >> his work is printed porcelain. he transfers images onto and spoils the surface a fragile shes of clay. each one, only one-tenth of an inch thick. >> it took about two years to get it down. i would say i lose 30% of the pieces that i made. something happens to them. they cracked, the break during the process. it is very complex. they fall apart. but it is worth it to me. there are photographs i took 1 hours 99 the former soviet union. t

it is a philosophic position. it would be interesting for people to live in a world as people did at the beginning of the modern era and centuries before. people were not relentlessly comodified, the way they are now. people should live in an environment where nothing is bought and sold, just to see what it is like. you know what that is like, within families. there are family that fight about inherited, property, but in any decent family, you are not buying and selling to one another, you are giving. that is a gift economy. it is predicated on the idea that some things have an unconditional value. you cannot put a price on it. we just said, everything is a gift in our city. you cannot buy or sell anything. there is no advertising. you are not surrounded by this nattering pandemonium of commercial messages, which is so relentless. and lo and behold, we discovered, had a certain point in a community, when everyone is giving, -- people began to have experiences that were revelatory. they began to feel like they were

i think that's a philosophical belief that underlies our work.an: i think one of the most important things about working with this group is the way ideas feed off each others' energy and create a way more complex piece. saner: goat island's work, i think, is much like painting in that there are many layers and many patinas of ideas that are layered one over the other, as colors are on a canvas. it is very visual. every day, he commits to memory 50 new facts. facts from history, from geography... from the newspapers, from scientific books -- millions and millions of them, and remembers every one of them. hixson: with our work, there's not a linear form where you follow a strict kind of story line and character development. this is much more like poetry. there is the use of metaphor, and it breathes differently. there's a place where an audience member can come in and interpret it. test him, please, ladies and gentlemen. ask him your questions, and he will answer you, fully and freely. mr. memory! [ audience laughing ] i'll also add, ladies and gen

particularly along with philosophical values here, that type of work with our local taxpayer dollar.ervisor chu: colleagues, we have a motion to send the item forward. as amended, without objection. thank you. are there any other items before us? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. >> everyone deserves a bank account. in san francisco, anyone can have a bank account. everyone is welcome, even if you are not a u.s. citizen or have bad credit. qualifying for a bank account is simple, just lived or worked in san francisco and had a form of id >> we started bank on san francisco at six years ago. we wanted to make sure they know they have options, which would be more successful for them. ♪ >> check cashing stores can be found all over the city. they're convenient locations, with a hidden price. -- the convenient locations, with a hidden price. >> i got a refund check and they took out $200. >> i understand they have to make money, but they are a little high. >> people who used check passers -- cashers, they could pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees. >> i

don't give me this garbage about it was a philosophical argument and disagreement. no, no, no. you are either a believer in the american worker or you're not. you're either a believer that this country can do big things and it's going to take a gamble and a chance to get there or you don't believe it. president obama believed it. i'm joined tonight by congressman gary peters of michigan. he knows what this is all about. great to have you with us. first it's gm and then chrysler. how has this recovery of the automobile industry helped your district? >> it has helped my district and about the country. middle class jobs, manufacturing sector, today's news on chrysler, the best earnings in 13 years is very exciting. you have to look at it just not in profits, job creation from the fact president obama stepped up and did what was unpopular at the time. since june of 2009, chrysler has added 9500 jobs. they have made a commitment to invest over $4.5 billion investment in american factories, with american workers. you look at 9500 new jobs since june of 2009, we all have to remember t

created in the first place and the need to reconnect with black voters not only politically but philosophically because i believe fundamentally that it is a conservative community tree by just believe there are emotional issues that have clouded the relationship and late ask people to talk about the racist fringe of the republican party to this we tell you have the racist fringe but you have the soft bigotries of low expectations that permeate a lot of the liberal views. which one do you prefer? in that regard i think the republicans have a responsibility to get a thick skin and at least at some level commit to try to build relationships want to pick on the media returns on this one or the next one but i know for myself i feel a lot less lonely now than i did in the 70's because i know that in social media for example ali encounter hundreds of black conservatives in the 5300 or 400 or 500 conservative friends on facebook that tells me there is a significant number of them out there and the population and for whatever reason and maybe it is because of the election of president obama the field pr

with economic issues, social issues, security issues, defense and national security, and also philosophical issues about the role of the individual, the role of the family, and the role of government do, ask the founders saw, to try to create as much as possible with imperfect human beings, to create the optimal system of government that maximizes happiness and freedom and prosperity for us all. >> what are some of those eight keys? >> the issue, economically, is first of all that in order to be sovereign, sovereign in our own lives, means not living by the means of others, it is able to own. we came from a system where under the bridge system the crown had ultimate title ii all land. everyone from the peasantry nobleman ultimately lived by the crown and in later years of the parliament. now, of course, the system has caught up to us in a number of regards but that's what was in terms of the founders conception. so it was an issue of ownership. you need to build you own your own home. you need to be up to own your own land, your own education, your own retirement. the things that are extens

particularly along with philosophical values here, that type of work with our local taxpayer dollar.ervisor chu: colleagues, we have a motion to send the item forward. as amended, without objection. thank you. are there any other items before us? >> [inaudible] supervisor chu: thank you, we are adjourned. >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology. they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started these street sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since

what he outlined tonight is a big philosophical disagreement. he's saying it's not the job of federal government or the united states to decides who gets what piece of an ever shrinking pie. that a rising tide lifts all boats. we're all in this together. that everybody benefits from economic growth and the policies of the last four years haven't worked. i think that rhetorically in this speech, i think it was his best effort on any of these primary nights. i think you see the preview of an economic argument that could make him the president of the united states. >> i agree this was a powerful speech. i agree that that vision, that economic vision would be the kind of contrast, big credible positive contrast of visions. i think that is your vision for what you'd like to hear the republicans say. it's not what mitt romney said at all tonight. i think him coming out and saying i'm the food stamps guy, if you're on food stamps and you never thought you would be, then i'm your guy, i think it's amazing for him to also be the paul ryan budget guy. >>

in the upper left has not corner, this philosophically inkleineinclined artist said. he boldly asked the questions that philosophers long ago abandoned and which science now is left to try to answer. >> rose: you like the big questions, don't you. >> well when you only have several years left of your life ask them now. >> rose: the social conquest of earth, e.o. wilson from harvard. one of my favorites. >> rose: eric kandel is here he's a medical investigator at columbia university. you night know him as a cohost of the charlie rose brain series which is now in its second season. for years he was interested in the conscious processes of the human brain. he explores this topic in a new book about how the science of the mind engages with art. the book is called the age of insight. i am pleased to have dr. eric kandel back at this table where he comes frequently. welcome. good to have you here. >> of yo nice of you to have me, charlie. >> rose: why call it the able of insight. >> the early 1900's was a very special period in which our view in which our human view was alt

it's not philosophical. it's practical. we're in a world where what works best is coordinated competition, because we live in an interdependent world. we can't escape each other. i would not like it, for example, if the water problems now being experienced in china, which are quite severe in a way. part of the yellow river is dry during part of the year. they've built these two great canals that run from the yangtze to the yellow, and some chinese engineers, not greenpeace, some chinese engineer, fear that the solution to the problem will actually ultimately cause both rivers to be dry parts of the year with calamitous consequences to china and perhaps to its neighbors in southeast asia, because it will press the chinese to consider taking out more of the macon than it should, given the needs of laos and others in the macon river system. you shouldn't want that to happen. we need to live in a world where every year, step by step, there is more shared prosperity and more shared responsibility for our common problems. but we

it's hard to locate twenty oaks philosophically because we operate as a communistic organization you know we're sort of a pure pure sort of communism however the way we function is that we're not trying to keep people here and they can't believe we have a leading lesser people who want to join and the only consequence we have for people who don't work their share is they get kicked out so this sort of small scale communism works really well. floats christmas morning so we're having a brunch so everybody in the community. who wants to have a special brunch. here. and then watched a lot of people are bringing other things with them to help contribute. because what happens around christmas is we get a lot of stuff in the mail from their family. place go. through to. you you know what if you put your fruit cakes some things like that and so then they can bring into this brunch and share that. now this is in central virginia right between the cities of charlottesville and richmond we're about ten miles outside of the town of louisa a very rural environment. there are one hundred people li

he set out a kind of philosophical division, a dividing line between himself and president obama. he says it is essentially the difference between free enterprise as advocated by him and big government as advocated by barack obama. >> we have been watching this for a number of months, and mitt romney doesn't really talk about his fellow candidates. >> he is acting like the nominee even though he hasn't quite cross the winning line of 1100 delegates which is the toehold somebody needs to break through in order to be confirmed as the nominee. he is pretty certain that he will be the nominee at this point. romney, one expects will reach the total around june. the way that it looks tonight, it will be very difficult if not impossible for one of his opponents who actually cross that winning line. we have heard from rick santorum that is in second place at the moment who is pretty defined. we are only just halftime, only half of america has spoken. hall will allow other republicans to have their say, and the key for three weeks from tonight is pennsylvania where he served for many years

burke provided the serious philosophical underpinning of early american political society, and for the conservative movement that is as appropriate and important today as it was in 1775 and 6. so, i think burke made a bigger contribution to the result. and i think payne made the contribution to lighting the fire. so, i'm willing to give payne his due. and by the way, jefferson, big payne guy. don't know that he read burke. haven't read that he read burke. he did all right without it. so i think i have filled my allotted time. we're going to take a break, right? and we'll come back and talk about revolutions and payne and

created in the first place, and they need to reconnect with black voters, not only politically but philosophically. die believe fundamentally that the black community is a conservative community. i believe there are emotional issues that have clouded that relationship, and i actually tell people -- they talk about the racist fringe of the countian party. i say you have the racist fringe and then you have the soft bigotry of low expectations that permeates a lot of liberal views of the black community. which one do you prefer? so in that record the republicans have responsibility to get a thick skin and at some level try to build relationships. not that they will see immediate returnness this election or the next one. but i know for myself i feel less lonely now than i did in the '70s because i know social media, for example, i encounter hundreds of black conservatives, and i figure if i have 300 or 400 or 500 black conservative friends on facebook, that tells me there's a significant number of them out there in the general population, and for whatever the reason -- maybe it's because of the electi