Moral Minority
Moral Minority is a podcast on moral philosophy and the problem of moral foundations. Why does morality matter? What grounds the moral principles to which we appeal when making judgments about right and wrong, justice and injustice? Do we have good grounds for making the judgments we do make–in our everyday lives, our relationships, our work, or in politics? And if not, where does that leave us?
Episodes
17 episodes
Being & Nothingness, Part 2
In Part 2, we wrap up our consideration of Jean-Paul Sartre's midcentury magnum opus by exploring how we move from the inaccessible interiority of consciousness to our concrete relations with others. The latter half of Being & Nothingness t...
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2:17:11
Nota Bene: The Metaphysics and Moral Vision of David Lynch with Jon Repetti
Note Bene is a series of off the cuff episodes that delve more into our personal experiences with broader topics with relevance to normativity and the ethical life. In this episode, Charles is joined by the writer and critic, Jon Repetti, to re...
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2:43:40
Contemporary Conversations: Matt McManus on The Political Theory of Liberal Socialism
Matt McManus joins us to help excavate the common origins of liberalism and socialism within the revolutionary republican tradition and illuminate shared political and normative principles rooted in a commitment to egalitarianism and expressive...
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1:25:21
Contemporary Conversations: Ryan Ruby on Fredric Jameson's The Political Unconscious and Context Collapse
In a far-reaching conversation with the critic Ryan Ruby, we unpack the legacy and impact of Fredric Jameson's landmark work of Marxist literary criticism, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. Jameson's text argues f...
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Being & Nothingness, Part 1
In Part 1, we explicate Jean-Paul Sartre's attempt to build a total existential system hinges on an unusual account of the evanescent character of consciousness at the heart of the meaning of existence. In this episode, we cover the first half ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:41:03
Repetition
Repetititon(1843) is a difficult and, for many, a baffling work by Søren Kierkegaard. It is equal parts psychological study, literary riddle, and philosophical problematic. In this discussion, we attempt to shed light on its central concept of ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:33:35
Contemporary Conversations: Vanessa Christina Wills on Marx's Ethical Vision
In this lively interview with philosopher Vanessa Wills, we discuss her recently published book, Marx's Ethical Vision, which argues that Marx's historical materialism contains a coherent and consistent moral picture of social transformation gr...
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1:59:22
Fear and Trembling
This episode inaugurates a series of episodes exploring the existentialist approach to modern philosophy by considering the most well-known work of the melancholic, Danish philosopher, Søren Kierkegaard. Fear and Trembling: A Dialectical Lyric ...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:44:44
Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 3: The Culture Industry
To complete our series on Dialectic of Enlightenment, we take an extended look at the famous chapter on the culture industry. The function of the culture industry, or the sphere of production concerned with creating entertainment and art is to ...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:44:07
Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 2
In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landmark text of the Frankfurt School, Dialectic o...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:29:07
Dialectic of Enlightenment, Part 1
In this multi-part series, we examine the legacy of critical theory and the prospects of a recuperation of Marxist theory in the face of rising fascism by delving into the dense and fragmentary landmark text of the Frankfurt School, Dialectic o...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:15:48
Vocation Lectures
This episode discusses the German sociologist Max Weber's Vocation Lectures. In these lectures, Weber outlines a secular conception of the meaning of a vocation, the role of passion in politics and scholarship, and the kind of ethically respons...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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1:23:04
Shame & Necessity
In Shame and Necessity, Bernard Williams interrogates what we can still glean about the universal character of human action and the notion of responsibility from a study of the Ancient Greeks. William provides a philosophical interp...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:15:53
Sources of Normativity
This episode turns to Christine Korsgaard's Tanner lectures, "The Sources of Normativity," to explore how morality might be rationally vindicated from within the nature of practical rationality. Korsgaard's project is an iteration of the Enli...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:14:50
After Virtue
This episode examines Alasdair MacIntyre's attempt to explain the existence of interminable moral and political disagreement as a symptom of the disarray of our inherited moral concepts. MacIntyre contends that the best way to unify our d...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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