Ep. 227: What Is Social Construction? (Hacking, Berger) (Part One)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Ethics of Social Construction
There is an ethical component to how we carve reality into concepts, he says. It's because we have justifiable intuitions about what it makes sense to allow a human of a certain age to do and what it make sense to not let humans of that age do. And I would argue in a lot of cases, when we're talking about social construction, we'retalking about if it's useful to create a category, if it's ethically useful.
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