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Big IdeasA season of death — with Raimond Gaita and Michelle LeshThe only certainty in life is that we will all some day die. Most of us don't know when that day will come. But others must face their mortality front on. Mark Rafael Baker was no stranger to death, losing three loved ones in seven years — and then he was confronted with his own.This event was recorded at Readings Bookshop Melbourne in October 2024.SpeakersMichelle LeshLecturer at Melbourne Law School, University of MelbourneRaimond GaitaEmeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College LondonHonorary Professorial Fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of MelbourneAuthor, Rom...2025-04-1744 min
Climate ConversationsEvent: Raimond Gaita helps us better understand that the answer to the climate crisis begins with expansive and meaningful conversationOne of Australia’s preeminent philosophers, Raimond Gaita (pictured), a conversation enthusiast, delivered the second annual oration following the annual general meeting of the Melbourne-based "Climate at the Crossroads".
The Importance of Conversation in the very Idea of our Common Humanity".
He is a Honorary Professorial Fellow, at the Melbourne Law School and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College London.
Promotional material for the lecture said Mr Gaita has long been a beacon of moral clarity in a world increasingly defined by division and despair.
Conversation is where everything begi...2024-11-051h 07
Big IdeasSOS Democracy with Scott Stephens — Saving democracy with decencyDemocracy is in retreat, authoritarianism on the rise. But this has happened before. So how did big thinkers of the past respond to the threats to democracy, and what can we learn from them?The Humanities Research Centre 50th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture was recorded at the Australian National University on 31 July 2024.SpeakersScott Stephens Co-presenter (with Waleed Aly) The MinefieldDigital editor, ABC Religion and EthicsCo-author of Quarterly Essay 87, Uncivil Wars: How Contempt is Corroding Democracy (2022)Editor of Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings by Raimond Gaita (2023)Dr Kim Huynh...2024-10-2555 min
Big IdeasMoral philosopher Raimond Gaita on Israel, Gaza and the student protestsMoral philosopher and writer Raimond Gaita wrestles with the moral and ethical dimensions of the Israel-Gaza war to try to make sense of the incomprehensible.The Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture, "The Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World" was recorded at the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne on May 8, 2024.SpeakerRaimond Gaita Honorary professorial fellow, Melbourne Law School, University of MelbourneEmeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy, King's College LondonFellow, Australian Academy of the HumanitiesAuthor, Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings, (and many other books)Editor Gaza: Morality, Law and...2024-07-2256 min
PodQueueThe Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World - Presented by Prof Raimond Gaita (audio only)Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture 2024
'The Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World'
Presented by Professor Raimond Gaita
Introduction by The Hon. Barry Jones AC from Accountability Round Table:
Raimond Gaita (1946- ) is an outstanding, but controversial, moral philosopher who agonises over the state of the world. Born in Germany, son of Romulus Gaita, a Romanian metal worker, and Christine Dorr, a German teacher, his family migrated to Australia in 1950, and he grew up in central Victoria. Educated in Ballarat and Melbourne, he held chairs in moral philosophy at the Australian Catholic University and King’s College, London. His memoir Romulus, My...2024-06-081h 06
The Readings PodcastRaymond Gaita in conversationIn this episode, a conversation recorded at the launch of Raimond Gaita’s Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings.
For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sense of our common humanity. For Gaita, we are never more fully alive than when we are fully present to one another in conversation.
In a time when modes of communication tend to superficiality and self-promotion, when political debates are increasingly inured to lies and even violence, an...2024-01-1148 min
The Readings PodcastA conversation about Heart Middle ParkA conversations between Raimond Gaita & his nephew Ari about the photography anthology, Heart Middle Park.2023-02-1014 min
The IILAH PodcastShaun McVeigh and Raimond Gaita: International Law and Ethical Tragedy(Festival of Conversations)McVeigh and Gaita discuss the relations between morality, law and politics. Gaita has argued in, amongst other places, his contributions to 'Who’s Afraid of International Law', (which he edited with Gerry Simpson) that morality, law and politics are distinctive forms of the ethical and that, as seen from a particular ethical perspective in the Western tradition, each is sui generis. He does not equate the ethical with morality. He believes that law and politics are answerable to morality, but not reducible to it in their ethical dimensions. To see morality, law and politics as different forms of the ethical, he...2021-10-151h 00
The Liminalist: The Podcast BetweenThe Liminalist # 289: The Mis-Representors of Reality (with Michelle Horsley & Kate Ledogar)Conversation with Kate Ledogar & Michelle Horsley on media manipulations, false narrative creation, and why most people stay away from too much reality and watch TV instead.
Part One: Off the Map (0 – 32 mins)
Long-distance connections, how babies learn Spanish, dental synchronizations, a rise in teeth-cracking during covid, Gabor Mate’s infancy, the way things are, your experts vs. my experts, VAERS, vaccine injuries, 5000+ deaths, swine flu scare, Fauci’s tipping point, global re-engineering off the map, an energy crisis, the Wuhan virus, early days of covid, working the thrift store in Hope, being (mis)guided by offici...2021-06-132h 02
Five QuestionsRaimond GaitaI ask the philosopher Raimond Gaita five questions about himself.
Rai Gaita is Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King’s College London. He is the author of many books, including “Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception” (1991), “Romulus, My Father” (1998), and “A Common Humanity” (1998).
J. S. Bach, Cello Suites, performed by Pablo Casals2021-06-0136 min
Philosophy VoicedRAIMOND GAITA (hosted by Kamila Pacovská and Niklas Forsberg)In this episode Kamila Pacovská and Niklas Forsberg speak with Raimond Gaita about a variety of philosophical topics including Academic Philosophy, Public Engagement, Populism, Trump, Climate Change Activism, Moral Exemplars, and Saintly Love, among many others. RAIMOND GAITA is Professorial Fellow in the Melbourne Law School and The Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at King's College London and a senior fellow of the Centre for Ethics as a Study in Human Value, University of Pardubice. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.2020-07-121h 12
BloomRaimond Gaita on 'Romulus, My Father', Suffering, Morality, and Humanity2019-08-071h 28
National Library of Australia2017 Seymour Biography Lecture with Raimond GaitaHear from Raimond Gaita, author of Romulus, My Father as he tackles the big concepts of truth, truthfulness, self and voice in his writing. What do they mean when one is writing portraits that express gratitude to people one loves, unapologetically in a personally inflected voice? Raimond explains further:
I’m writing a book of essays that express gratitude to, often love of, people I have known who have mattered deeply to me, some of whom have inspired me. I’ll include part of one of those essays in my lecture. Perhaps they are better described as elegies. Or, portraits. Some...2017-10-181h 13
Uncommon SenseUncommon Sense - 8 August 2017This week on Uncommon Sense with Amy Mullins, film director Jennifer Peedom spoke about her breathtaking documentary, Mountain screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival. Australian writer and philosopher Professor Raimond Gaita joined Amy in the studio to talk about the lecture series he's hosting at The University of Melbourne, The Intelligentsia in The Age of Trump. NGV Assistant Director, Dr Isobel Crombie chatted about Brave New World, an exhibition she co-curated exploring the modernist artistic styles and themes explored in Australia during the 1930s. Plus New Matilda's Ben Eltham on the latest in federal politics.2017-08-081h 45
The InterrobangWhat’s the ‘good’ in the good fight? Questions for ethical thinking in strange timesIf we peel back religion, politics, economics and other big players in our collective pursuit of the ‘common good’ … what do we end up with? How are our ideas of goodness formed – and can they ever be agreed upon?
The panel: Mark Colvin, Anne Summers, Alan Duffy, Raimond Gaita and Gregory Phillips
As globalisation and technology draw the world closer together, they’ve also revealed chasms in how we relate to each other as nations, cultures and individuals – and how we resolve conflicts. What happens when good intentions are incompatible?
Raimond Gaita, Anne Summers, Greg...2016-01-2500 min
The InterrobangWhy are people nicer when it’s your birthday? Questions of relativity and hope
How are you?
Such a habitual, everyday question remains one of our most difficult to answer honestly and fully. Where do we even begin? Are we ever possessed by just one state or feeling? What moves the tides of our emotional lives?
'Friendships are chosen. Family are not chosen. By definition, if something's chosen, it's chosen for certain kinds of reasons … the concept of friendship and the concept of being a father, a mother, a sister or a brother … they have standards. They're not always the standards of morality.'
Raimond Gaita
In a th...2016-01-0800 min
Faith and Culture: The Politics of BeliefThe Voice of Faith and Public Reason: Raimond GaitaOver four days, our 20 plus speakers – philosophers and theologians, historians and writers, believers and non-believers – will consider what it means to be religious, and what role the voice of faith may legitimately have in the conversations of citizens in a multicultural, democratic state and the community of nations.
Launching our four-day weekend, series curator and acclaimed philosopher Raimond Gaita will deliver the opening keynote address. Throughout the series, after each keynote, we will be offering an opportunity for discussion and exchange, with many sessions accompanied by panels and rebuttals from other thinkers and speakers. Following his agenda-setting lect...2012-05-2000 min
Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoOn ForgivenessContributor(s): Dr Tom Farrow, Professor Raimond Gaita | What role does forgiveness play in our private lives and in politics? And can neuroscience contribute to a more nuanced understanding of our ability to forgive? Tom Farrow is a senior lecturer in psychiatric neuroimaging in the Medical School at the University of Sheffield and a honorary NHS clinical scientist. Raimond Gaita is professor of moral philosophy at King's College London.2011-02-071h 32Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfOn ForgivenessContributor(s): Dr Tom Farrow, Professor Raimond Gaita | What role does forgiveness play in our private lives and in politics? And can neuroscience contribute to a more nuanced understanding of our ability to forgive? Tom Farrow is a senior lecturer in psychiatric neuroimaging in the Medical School at the University of Sheffield and a honorary NHS clinical scientist. Raimond Gaita is professor of moral philosophy at King's College London.2011-02-071h 32Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfOn ForgivenessContributor(s): Dr Tom Farrow, Professor Raimond Gaita | What role does forgiveness play in our private lives and in politics? And can neuroscience contribute to a more nuanced understanding of our ability to forgive? Tom Farrow is a senior lecturer in psychiatric neuroimaging in the Medical School at the University of Sheffield and a honorary NHS clinical scientist. Raimond Gaita is professor of moral philosophy at King's College London.2011-02-071h 32Spring 2011 | Public lectures and events | VideoOn ForgivenessContributor(s): Dr Tom Farrow, Professor Raimond Gaita | What role does forgiveness play in our private lives and in politics? And can neuroscience contribute to a more nuanced understanding of our ability to forgive? Tom Farrow is a senior lecturer in psychiatric neuroimaging in the Medical School at the University of Sheffield and a honorary NHS clinical scientist. Raimond Gaita is professor of moral philosophy at King's College London.2011-02-071h 32
Philosophy BitesRaimond Gaita on TortureIs it immoral even to consider the use of torture in some circumstances? If the State is threatened, should we be prepared to shelve human rights for an end we consider worthwhile? Raimond Gaita discusses a range of arguments about torture in this episode of Philosophy Bites.2008-03-3013 min
Law (ANU Podcasts)Gay marriage: As important as race? Raimond GaitaThe Herbert & Valmae Freilich Foundation Annual Lecture in Bigotry and Intolerance 2011When gays ask to be granted the right to marry, they are not asking for something that can be adequately conceptualised by an ideal of equality that demands equal access to good and opportunities for all citizens of a polity. Nor do they ask for something that can adequately be expressed in classical liberal ideals. They ask, I believe, for the recognition, by their fellow citizens, of the depth and dignity of their sexuality; and they ask it from those of their fellow citizens who appear to believe...1970-01-011h 31