Copthorne Macdonald's
Streaming Media Materials
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WISDOM-FOCUSED VIDEOS
WISDOM
and THE WISDOM PAGE
A 9-minute video that introduces the three big questions concerning wisdom:
What is wisdom? Why is wisdom important? and How can we develop wisdom?
It touches on answers to all three, and invites the viewer to visit The
Wisdom Page website and explore the matter more deeply.
TALKS
Personal
and Societal Wisdom: Some thoughts on their nature and development
A talk given at Orlando's
University Unitarian Universalist Society on April 2, 2006. (44 minutes
long)
Flash Video (FLV) streaming video presentation
Windows Media Video (WMV) streaming video presentation
MP3 streaming audio presentation
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WISDOM:
The Highest Aim of Life and Higher Education
Copthorne Macdonald's
“Thomas P. Johnson Distiguished Visiting Scholar” 2006 address
at Rollins College.
(53 minutes long)
Flash Video (FLV) streaming video presentation
Windows Media Video (WMV) streaming video presentation
MP3 streaming audio presentation
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A text-with-slides written transcript of the presentation
A streaming audio presentation of the discussion that followed Cop's talk
INTERVIEWS
Get
a Life!
Jason Merchey interviews
Cop Macdonald and Alan Nordsrom about Cop's book Getting a Life
and its use in Alan Nordstrom's Rollins College writing class. (1 hour
total, in one segment.)
Listen to the program in MP3 streaming audio
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Self-Actualization
Jason Merchey interviews
Copthorne Macdonald and Richard Trowbridge about Abraham Maslow's work
and the concept of Self-Actualization. (1 hour total, in three segments.)
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Wisdom:
We Need a Revolution
In this program Jason Merchey interviews Nicholas Maxwell and Copthorne
Macdonald about the need to transform academia from a knowledge focus
to a wisdom focus. (1 hour total in three segments..)
Listen to the program in MP3 streaming audio
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An
Exploration of Wisdom
Here Jason Merchey interviews Wes Nisker and Copthorne Macdonald about
the nature and development of wisdom. (1 hour total in three segments.)
Listen to the program in MP3 streaming audio
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A
CBC TV interview concerning Wisdom
Doug Huskelson of CBC TV (Canadian Broadcasting Company) interviews Copthorne
Macdonald about wisdom on the occasion of the publication of Cop's book
Toward Wisdom. (6 minutes 36 seconds.)
Flash Video (FLV) streaming video presentation
Windows Media Video (WMV) streaming video presentation
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DOCUMENTARIES
Becoming
Wise
This is a CBC Ideas radio
documentary about Copthorne Macdonald by writer/broadcaster Deirdre Kessler.
This program was aired on the national radio network of the Canadian Broadcasting
Company. (55 minutes.)
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An
Early Art and Technology Collaboration
This is JoDee
Samuelson's video documentary about Copthorne Macdonald's 1967-68 art
project collaboration with artist Roberta Phillips. (11 minutes.)
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Windows Media Video (WMV) streaming video presentation
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PODCAST
EPISODES
Episode
2 — What is Wisdom?, Part 1 (To
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Episode 3 —
What is Wisdom?, Part 2 (To
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Episode 4 —
The Identity Delusion (To
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Episode 7 —
The Need for Wisdom (To
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Episode 8 —
Dealing with Reactivity, Part 1 (To
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Episode 9 —
Dealing with Reactivity, Part 2 (To
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Episode 10
— Seeing the Unity: The Three Stages (To
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Episode 11:
— Seeing the Unity: Disidentifying (To
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Episode 12
— Seeing the Unity: Identifying with Being
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Episode 13
— The Path to Wisdom (To
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Episode 15
— Freedom (To
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Episode 16
— A Wisdom-Based Culture (To
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Episode
19 — WISDOM and THE WISDOM PAGE (To
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