Minds Almost Meeting

The Sacred (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson, with Arnold Brooks)

Nov 9, 2022

01:15:09

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Abstraction Is Inappropriate When Applied to the Human Being

03:16

Is Education a Life Project?

02:48

Are We Treating Socrates as Sacred?

02:54

Introduction

3min

Is It Okay to Trade Off or Sacrifice a Sacred Thing?

2min

The Unity of the Virtues

5min

Are We Trying to Get More of What We're Getting?

2min

The Problem With the Sacred or the Problem That It Blocks Our Ability to Deliberate

4min

Is Hegel a Killer?

3min

Abstraction Is Inappropriate When Applied to the Human Being

3min

How to See the Same Important Things From Afar

3min

Is Education a Life Project?

3min

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Are We Seeing It as Sacred?

4min

11.

Is the Community Really the Thing That's Sought After?

3min

12.

Treating the Community as Sacred

5min

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The Socratic Approach to Life, You Know?

2min

14.

The Effective Altruist Move

3min

15.

The Rhetorical Strategy

2min

16.

Socrates' Reductive Approach to Philosophy

5min

17.

Is There a Relatively Low Level of Indignation?

4min

18.

Is Math What's Most Sacred to You?

2min

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The Separation of Theoretical and Practical Reason

2min

20.

Is Math Really Sacred?

2min

21.

Are We Going to Treat the Sacred Poorly?

6min

22.

What Is Most Sacred?

2min

23.

Is Socrates a Hero?

2min

24.

Are We Treating Socrates as Sacred?

3min

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

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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