Ideas Roadshow Podcast

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

Dec 7, 2021

02:36:10

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What Is Enlightenment?

05:43

The Importance of Reason

05:50

Is Kant's Moral Philosophy Derived From Kant?

03:13

Introduction

4min

The Debate Coach at a Private School

6min

'Te Goyou, Yes Ye, Was as a Great Deal.

2min

Political Philosophy

2min

Are You Interested in Physics?

2min

Are You a Polymath?

4min

The Importance of Human Inquiry in the Humanities

2min

The Lesson of a Great Books Education

5min

What I'm Realizing Now Is the Dark Side of New York

4min

10.

How to Write a Comedic Novel?

3min

11.

Is That the Most Challenging a Academic Experience a Freshman Year of College?

3min

12.

Did You Go to Law School?

5min

13.

What Is Enlightenment?

6min

14.

Is Reason a Slave of the Passions?

3min

15.

The Importance of Reason

6min

16.

Why Human Beings Act the Way They Do and How They Should Be

2min

17.

Are You So Concerned About Rational Beings as Such?

3min

18.

The Impartial Observer

4min

19.

The Expanding Circle

3min

20.

What's Working in the Community?

4min

21.

Justice Is the Virtue of Obedience to the Conventions

4min

22.

Ampathy Is the Primary Faculty Necessary for Adequate Moral Judgment

4min

23.

The Herder Is Best Known as Within, You Know?

3min

24.

Kant's Mid Life Crisis

2min

25.

Herder - The Worst Crime Gotimer Committed

2min

26.

German Romantic Aesthetics in the 20th Century

6min

27.

Is There One Reasonable, True Way of Doing Things?

5min

28.

The Importance of Sensationalism and Sympathy in the Enlightenment

2min

29.

Why I'm in Political Theory

5min

30.

Is Kant's Moral Philosophy Derived From Kant?

3min

31.

Are We Committed to Enlightenment Values?

4min

32.

Quenton Skinner, I Get Amused Again

3min

33.

The History of Ideas and the Politics of the Past

5min

34.

Are You Not Doing History?

1min

35.

The Implications of All This for the Present Day

2min

36.

Is Economics on a Shaky Foundation?

2min

37.

I'm Not Going to Listen to These Jokers Because You Don't Know Anything

2min

38.

Is It Possible to Predict Human Behavior?

2min

39.

I'm Not Saying That Economics Is Irrelevant, but Those Are Real Issues

2min

40.

The Pursuit of Wealth Is a Good Way to Get People to Pay Attention to You

5min

41.

What Do You Think Adam Smith Would Say?

4min

42.

The Moral Development of Human Societies

4min

43.

Are You Canadian?

2min

44.

Baracco Bomma's Theory of Moral Sentiments

3min

45.

The Best Political Rhetoric Isn't About Management of Self

4min

46.

The Importance of Moral Sentiments to Political Practice

3min

The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Frazer, Senior Lecturer in Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia. After a detailed discussion of Prof. Frazer’s intellectual journey, the conversation explores the core ideas behind the sentimentalist theory as outlined in Prof. Frazer’s book called The Enlightenment of Sympathy.

Howard Burton is the founder of the Ideas Roadshow, Ideas on Film and host of the Ideas Roadshow Podcast. He can be reached at howard@ideasroadshow.com.

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