Extra-Long (>70 mins)
Doctrine
Anglican
Why Isn't Altruism Abnormal?
Theologian
Sarah Coakley
Duration
100.01
Uploaded to YouTube
3 June 2014
Added to Database
20 August 2025
YouTube description
On December 8, 2005, Alexander Pruss, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University, presented a talk titled: "Why Isn't Altruism Abnormal? Contemporary Cosmological and Teleological Arguments for the Existence of God, and the Evolution of Altruism." It was the second in a series of lectures sponsored by the Evolution and Theology of Cooperation Project at Harvard University, directed by Professors Sarah Coakley and Martin Nowak and supported by a grant from the John Templeton Foundation.
