Minds Almost Meeting

Human Sacrifice

Jul 17, 2022

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The Reason Why There's Violence

01:59

The Basic Social Problem Is Reciprocal Violence

04:18

The Human Sacrifice Case

01:32

Introduction

4min

The Elephant in the Brain, Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

2min

Why Do We Sacrifice Our Lives?

3min

The Story in the Aztecs Was That There Was an Angering God

2min

The Basic Social Problem Is Reciprocal Violence

4min

The Priestly Cast Is the Authority Over Violence

2min

The Reason Why There's Violence

2min

Why Do We Sacrifice?

3min

Utilitarianism

2min

10.

Agamemnon and the Athenian Court System

2min

11.

Is the Criminal Dying Your Story?

2min

12.

The Function of Sacrifice

2min

13.

Is Debt a Good Investment?

2min

14.

Why Should You Owe Me Anything?

2min

15.

Parenting

3min

16.

Credit for Effort Is Credit for Sacrifice

2min

17.

I'm Taking You on a Date

2min

18.

The Human Sacrifice Case

2min

19.

Police as a Dramatic Example Right?

2min

20.

The Sacrificial Attitude

3min

21.

The Sorority and the Problem of Violence and Collective Guilt

2min

22.

Are We Going to Return to Older Religions in This Kind of Collective Sacrifice?

2min

23.

The Difference Between a Group Sacrifice and a Personal One

2min

24.

Are We Enlightened by Collective Sacrifice?

2min

25.

Are We All Responsible for What We've Done?

2min

26.

Do We All Just Find That?

2min

27.

The Key Emotional Point of Observing That People Sacrifice

2min

28.

I Just Want Happiness I Don't Want Meaning

4min

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

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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