Ideas Roadshow Podcast

Michael Frazer, “The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism” (Open Agenda, 2021)

Dec 7, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
The Debate Coach at a Private School
04:06 • 6min
3
'Te Goyou, Yes Ye, Was as a Great Deal.
09:41 • 2min
4
Political Philosophy
11:17 • 2min
5
Are You Interested in Physics?
13:29 • 2min
6
Are You a Polymath?
15:40 • 4min
7
The Importance of Human Inquiry in the Humanities
19:23 • 2min
8
The Lesson of a Great Books Education
20:54 • 5min
9
What I'm Realizing Now Is the Dark Side of New York
25:52 • 4min
10
How to Write a Comedic Novel?
29:52 • 3min
11
Is That the Most Challenging a Academic Experience a Freshman Year of College?
32:41 • 3min
12
Did You Go to Law School?
35:35 • 5min
13
What Is Enlightenment?
41:03 • 6min
14
Is Reason a Slave of the Passions?
46:46 • 3min
15
The Importance of Reason
49:40 • 6min
16
Why Human Beings Act the Way They Do and How They Should Be
55:30 • 2min
17
Are You So Concerned About Rational Beings as Such?
57:29 • 3min
18
The Impartial Observer
01:00:57 • 4min
19
The Expanding Circle
01:04:40 • 3min
20
What's Working in the Community?
01:07:17 • 4min
21
Justice Is the Virtue of Obedience to the Conventions
01:10:57 • 4min
22
Ampathy Is the Primary Faculty Necessary for Adequate Moral Judgment
01:15:06 • 4min
23
The Herder Is Best Known as Within, You Know?
01:19:08 • 3min
24
Kant's Mid Life Crisis
01:21:48 • 2min
25
Herder - The Worst Crime Gotimer Committed
01:23:57 • 2min
26
German Romantic Aesthetics in the 20th Century
01:25:33 • 6min
27
Is There One Reasonable, True Way of Doing Things?
01:31:14 • 5min
28
The Importance of Sensationalism and Sympathy in the Enlightenment
01:36:38 • 2min
29
Why I'm in Political Theory
01:38:31 • 5min
30
Is Kant's Moral Philosophy Derived From Kant?
01:44:00 • 3min
31
Are We Committed to Enlightenment Values?
01:47:13 • 4min
32
Quenton Skinner, I Get Amused Again
01:51:13 • 3min
33
The History of Ideas and the Politics of the Past
01:54:39 • 5min
34
Are You Not Doing History?
01:59:46 • 1min
35
The Implications of All This for the Present Day
02:01:00 • 2min
36
Is Economics on a Shaky Foundation?
02:02:51 • 2min
37
I'm Not Going to Listen to These Jokers Because You Don't Know Anything
02:04:27 • 2min
38
Is It Possible to Predict Human Behavior?
02:06:22 • 2min
39
I'm Not Saying That Economics Is Irrelevant, but Those Are Real Issues
02:07:58 • 2min
40
The Pursuit of Wealth Is a Good Way to Get People to Pay Attention to You
02:09:54 • 5min
41
What Do You Think Adam Smith Would Say?
02:14:50 • 4min
42
The Moral Development of Human Societies
02:18:25 • 4min
43
Are You Canadian?
02:22:12 • 2min
44
Baracco Bomma's Theory of Moral Sentiments
02:23:46 • 3min
45
The Best Political Rhetoric Isn't About Management of Self
02:26:18 • 4min
46
The Importance of Moral Sentiments to Political Practice
02:30:47 • 3min