The Problem of a Sociate Life Is Real

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Yogo: I agree that the problem of a sociate life is real, but it's actually not the question that's worth asking from a point of view of moral philosophy. Most people are not sa paths, and most people do care both about their fellow human beings and about what they feelat they owe them. And second, that the socia paf is never going to be reachable by moral argument in any case. So in so far as you're hoping for reflection about morality to have a real impact in the world, is perfectly fine to ignore the social path.

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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