#309 — Vulnerability, Politics, and Moral Worth

Sam Harris speaks with Martha C. Nussbaum about her philosophical
work. They discuss the relevance of philosophy to personal and
political problems, the influence of religion, the problem of
dogmatism, the importance of Greek and Roman philosophy for
modern thought, the Stoic view of emotions, anger and
retribution, deterrence, moral luck, sexual harassment, the
philosophical significance of Greek tragedy, grief, human and
animal flourishing, the "capabilities approach" to valuing
conscious life, the rightness or wrongness of moral hierarchies,
"the fragility of goodness," and other topics.


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