Playlist: Bentham, Jeremy (topic)
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Mightier Than the Sword (Part Ten)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Three English humanistic philosophers were closely related in ideas and outlook, namely Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and Bertrand Russell.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Fourteen)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Ralph Waldo Emerson's insistence that every person is free to be his own god served as the underpinnings of the ascendant, emergent religion of humanism.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Eleven)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Ralph Waldo Emerson was America's foremost practitioner of Transcendentalism and Pantheism, which equate the creation and the Creator, ignoring Him.
Mightier Than The Sword (Part Twenty-Two)
Commentary by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)Every one of the philosophers who have wreaked havoc upon greater Israel were themselves Israelite and Semitic, bringing curses on their fellow Semites.
Ecclesiastes Resumed (Part Twenty-Nine)
Sermon by John W. Ritenbaugh (1932-2023)We are not privy to God's, but we must realize that He has the prerogative to impose both blessings and calamity, the latter in response to disobedience.