The Question of Right and Wrong

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Yosa: I got the idea back in 79 eightyhen visiting in oxford as a guest of derrick parfit. This idea of contractilis that when we’re thinking about right and wrong, what we're thinking about is what kind of conduct would be permitted by principles that i actually defend other people. That's a gate way, it seemed to me, to approaching both of these problems. Yosa: People don't want to stand in that relation to other people most of the time. So this idea seemed like way into that. And i thinki something we shoud care about because we care about being in that kind of relation with other people. But once i

T. M. Scanlon, one of the world's preeminent moral philosophers, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University until his retirement. In his seminal work, What We Owe to Each Other, Scanlon gives a liberal account of how to reason through what it takes to act justly in matters of morality as well as politics.

In this week’s conversation, T. M. Scanlon and Yascha Mounk discuss the true meaning of tolerance, how to decide whether an action is morally right or wrong, and why the question of free will isn’t as important as you might think.

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