Minds Almost Meeting

Passion (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard, with Joshua Fox)

Dec 15, 2022

01:13:38

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The Word of Happiness Is Our True Passion

04:23

Isn't It Kind of Tame to Passion?

03:10

Is There a Concise Way to Value Passions?

02:15

Introduction

5min

She Open Over Doesn't Talk About Taste in That Particular Way

2min

Is There a Moral Virtue in Attraction or Repulsion?

2min

How Do You Know if You Want to Win a Race?

2min

Is There a Difference Between Attraction and Aversion?

5min

Are You Sure That You Have Passion?

5min

Passions Are Not Sufficient to Produce Attraction

3min

Are Passions More Reassuring About Attraction?

3min

Do You Have a Passion?

2min

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Is There a Passion?

2min

11.

How Do I Know What I Really Want?

4min

12.

Is There an Attraction or Aversion?

2min

13.

The Practical Question About Passions

3min

14.

Are We Hostile to Our Passions?

2min

15.

The Value of Passions

2min

16.

The Utilitarian Goal of Happiness

2min

17.

Are You Having Utopian Desires?

3min

18.

Is There a Coherent Utopie?

2min

19.

The Word of Happiness Is Our True Passion

4min

20.

The Structure of Desire

2min

21.

Isn't It Kind of Tame to Passion?

3min

22.

Is There a Substitute for Passion?

2min

23.

Macbeth: Is It Escapist or Pseudo Art?

3min

24.

Macbeth: A Crack Doesn't Account of Ambition?

2min

25.

Is Macbeth a Celebration of Love or a Condemnation of Ambition?

2min

26.

Is There a Concise Way to Value Passions?

2min

27.

Is There a Gap Between the Artist and the Subject?

2min

View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/passion

Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.

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