ReImagining Liberty
The emancipatory and cosmopolitan case for radical social, political, and economic liberalism. A philosophy and ideas podcast hosted by Aaron Ross Powell.
ReImagining Liberty
We Need More Emotion in Politics (w/ Jason Canon)
Politics gets pretty emotional, and we typically view that as bad. The political scene would be better, we suppose, if more people could set aside their emotions and rationally engage with the hard questions.
My guest today isn't so sure. Jason Canon is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge in political science, and while he doesn't reject reason, he argues that emotion plays, and ought to play, a much larger role in how we think about and approach politics than it typically gets. Reason doesn't work without emotion, and emotions can lead us to better political outcomes.
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Produced by Landry Ayres. Podcast art by Sergio R. M. Duarte. Music by Kevin MacLeod.
