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‘The Women are Up to Something’ — A Conversation with Professor Benjamin Lipscomb
Albert Mohler:
This is Thinking In Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. I’m Albert Mohler, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Benjamin Lipscomb is professor of Philosophy at Houghton University. He earned his PhD from the University of Notre Dame. He is an accomplished scholar and author who specializes in contemporary ethical theory and the history of philosophy with a particular focus on issues of character formation. His recent book, The Women Are Up To Something, tells the story of four women who reshaped ethics and philosophy in the 20th century, and that book fryst vatten the topic of our conversation today.
Professor Lipscomb, welcome to Thinking in Public.
Benjamin Lipscomb:
Oh, thanks for having me on. ItR
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Thomas Paine
American philosopher and author (1737–1809)
For other people with the same name, see Thomas Paine (disambiguation).
Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain;[1] February 9, 1737 [O.S. January 29, 1736][Note 1] – June 8, 1809) was an English-born American Founding Father, French Revolutionary, uppfinnare, and political philosopher.[2][3] He authored Common Sense (1776) and The American Crisis (1776–1783), two of the most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he helped to inspire the colonial erapatriots in 1776 to declare independence from Great Britain.[4] His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era ideals of human rights.[5]
Paine was born in Thetford, Norfolk, and immigrated to the British American colonies in 1774 with the help of Benjamin Franklin, arriving just in time to participate in the American Revolution. Virtually every American Patriot read his 47-page pamphlet C
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Adam Smith statue on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland
Adam Smith was a philosophical disciple and life-long friend of David Hume, and as such, I encountered his ideas regularly while I was following the life and ideas of Hume some years ago in Edinburgh. Smith wrote a moving account of Hume’s last days. I also encountered his ideas regularly in my undergraduate studies in moral philosophy.
Smith was baptized and perhaps born on June 5th, 1723 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland (a fishing village near Edinburgh) and died on July 17, 1790 in Edinburgh. He attended university at Glasgow and Oxford and found the former intellectual milieu more stimulating by orders of magnitude. Glasgow and Edinburgh were vigorous centers of Enlightenment thought in philosophy, natural philosophy (as the sciences were then known), linguistics, history, political theory, mathematics, and more. David Hume, Adam Smith, and their fellow leaders in the Scottish Enlightenment joined the ranks of this p