
Kieran Setiya: Philosophy, Self-Help, and AI S1 E25
Meditations with Zohar
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The T-Lic and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
John Stuart Mill and the moderns it seems like we've sort of abandoned character as everything has mostly become structural. I see effective altruists as having much more in common with the capitalists than not vis-a-vis this focus on outcomes and measurable outcomes. The real enemy being let's say the ancients with their naive appreciation of of just old-fashioned things like courage and kindness, he says. To make space for a wider range of people to have the kinds of non-consumerist flourishing lives that the ancients might have praised will require structural change according to him.
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