If we lose these ethical ways of being together, like if we lose that sense, it would be like losing the sense of gravity. We're still working with infinite ideas, right? A anyware. And ye, i mean that it is one, it's one of the only ways, frankly, isn't and it's and james ar balder, youe stuck with this, like you need the moral ideal.
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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Show Notes
- 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