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Zak Stein - The Eros of Ethics

Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

Is There a Dramadanethics in Our Culture?

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Culture is not unique in desensitizing people to ethical dilemmas. We just have very powerful technologies now, and are dealing with much graverethical dilemmas than ever before. There's a hardening and armoring at the level of the sematic a which must be broken open to engage in good moral judgment. To think well ethically, you have to feel appropriately about what is happening. And so your new sponilitarians are cognizant that there's an answer to this thing called 'the right thing to do' But they're like ceterivists, et cetera,. They're like utilitarians who say: dude, there's

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

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