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Episode 13: Moral Heroes

Morality in the 21st Century

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The Importance of Listening and Persuading

I'm a big believer in experimenting with the internet. But there's a danger, and we've seen it on display all too often lately, that social media is a kind of atomizing form of public discourse. It doesn't really teach people how to listen very well. We're not just born with it. It has to be cultivated through practice. This is an important way of cultivating the human skills and arts to do with listening and persuading and being persuaded,. In turn, reason debate about the common good. That's what the conversations in this series have been about. They know how much we gain when we listen respectfully to views with which we disagree.

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