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Zak Stein - The Eros of Ethics

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

Is There a Reward for Giving?

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Very human is built to give a and it's very interesting. You know, te parent gives without givts for its own sake. And that's one of the lessonsof metaethics. There's actually always this position alsian, like this metamethesis carl otto upheld howermas's friend tot t,. Like a extra worldly position of choice which loet't say within the stream, you can always alter this dream.

In this first conversation after a year sabbatical from the Emerge project I'm speaking with Zak Stein. This is a far ranging conversation about ethics, education, trauma, the erotics of moral understanding, and more.

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0:00 Opening
0:03 How to create the kinds of humans who can respond to the meta-crisis?
0:08 “We’re not sure what it means to be good anymore” / what’s worth loving
0:09 Eros and Ethics / Ensoulment
0:17 Moral development
0:23 “How do you get someone interested in what is truly good?”
0:25 Linking / meta-psychology
0:29 Community ethics feedback loops
0:33 Objective ethics
0:37 Embodied ethical sensing
0:38 Intersection between Trauma & Ethics, desensitization, somatic de-armoring
0:43 Trust, return of the Sacred
0:47 The Moral Exemplar
0:52 Exposure to the full ethical range
0:54 “Trauma” in culture
0:62 Evil
0:68 Practices for Wellbeing
0:72 “Enlightenment is your greatest disappointment”
0:74 Eros & Ethics
0:77 Human as ethical actor, intimacy and obligation
0:81 Circling, following “aliveness”, co-discovering moral landscape
0:85 Path = compromising moral integrity increasingly intolerable
0:88 Ethics in Community, MAPLE’s advantage
0:90 Closing

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