The Shrink & The Sage: Is blood thicker than water?
Take simmering tensions about duties and obligations, add the same old disagreements about how family members should treat each other[…]
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Sam Harris on Science and Morality
In the latest microphilosophy podcast I talk to Sam Harris about his claim in The Moral Landscape that science can[…]
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In this programme I talk to John Gray about some of the ideas that emerge from his latest book, The[…]
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Suffering is the unifying theme of the latest edition of Baggini’s Philosophy Monthly. Is it all bad or do we need at least some it? Mark Vernon and Havi Carel argue that suffering can be part of the good life, while transhumanist Nick Bostrom makes the moral case for a future when death and disease will be conquered. Janet Radcliffe Richards also talks about suffering as a manifestly bad thing in her incisive critique of muddled morality.
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