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November 09, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman
The Wright Show
June 18, 2019 —
Daniel Kaufman & Robert Gressis
Sophia
- Is the "Morality Everywhere Problem" really a problem?
- Why Robert finds the moral question difficult to dispel
- Peter Singer's "drowning child" thought experiment
- Is weakness of will keeping Robert from volunteering at the soup kitchen?
- Dan: "Embrace the normal"
- What do those living in dire poverty want first-worlders to do?
- Why Rob is repulsed by utilitarianism
- Dan: The end goal of charity is human flourishing
- Were people less sensitive in the past?
October 19, 2016 —
Robert Wright & Sam Harris
The Wright Show
- Sam Harris, mystic and atheist
- The mystery of consciousness
- Is mysticism more like science than like religion?
- How religion makes progress
- Sam's case for intolerance
- The root causes of extremism
- Religious and secular reasons to do good
- Ways religion may be closer to the truth than atheism
- A secular approach to death
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