Lectures & Interviews
Is Civility a Sham?
TED Salon Talk, November 2018
The Open Mind
The Value of Disagreements and Limits of Intolerance
Two Concepts of Freedom (of Speech)
American Philosophical Society, April 2018
What does it mean to be civil in conversation with others? Is it always a virtue? Teresa Bejan, author of Mere Civility, discusses this topic and its long history in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.
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Part 1 - Early American Religion
Part 2 - Civility and Tone Policing
A polite protest at a restaurant last weekend led politicians and pundits to wonder whether, at long last, civility in America was dead. But as unique as this political moment might seem, rudeness and uncivil protest have been around for a long time — as has the debate over how a diverse society can best exist or whether it can at all. Brooke talks to Dr. Teresa M. Bejan, associate professor of political theory at Oxford University and author of Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration, about our long history of uncivil disagreement and whether civility is all it's cracked up to be.
We enter the early modern age with an expert opinion featuring Teresa Bejan, associate professor at Oriel College, Oxford University and author of “Mere Civility: Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration.” In this episode, Jacob and Teresa will discuss political thought on tolerance and the limits of religious speech in early modern England and colonial America. The episode investigates the writings of intellectual rock stars John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke and the less famous but hugely relevant Roger Williams.