#214 - Cosmic Skeptic - How Do We Define What Is Good & Bad?

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Alex O'Connor is a philosopher & YouTuber. Get ready for a mental workout today as Alex poses some of the most famous and most difficult questions in ethics. What does it mean to say that something is good? Why SHOULD you do one thing instead of another thing? Why should we care about wellbeing? What is the definition of suffering? On whose authority is anything good or bad? Sponsor: Check out everything I use from The Protein Works at https://www.theproteinworks.com/modernwisdom/ (35% off everything with the code MODERN35) Extra Stuff: Watch Alex on YouTube - https://youtu.be/gcVR2OVxPYw Subscribe to Alex on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/CosmicSkeptic Get my free Ultimate Life Hacks List to 10x your daily productivity → https://chriswillx.com/lifehacks/ To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/modernwisdom - Get in touch. Join the discussion with me and other like minded listeners in the episode comments on the MW YouTube Channel or message me... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ModernWisdomPodcast Email: https://www.chriswillx.com/contact Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome back.
0:02.2	My guest today is Alex O'Connor, otherwise known as Cosmic Skeptic, and today we are posing
0:07.8	some of the most difficult and famous questions in ethics.
0:12.3	Some of my favourite episodes that we do on Modern Wisdom are ones that pose questions
0:18.1	that force you to actively participate in the discussion.
0:21.9	I really enjoy bringing you along for the ride and making sure that you're engaged in
0:26.2	what is being said.
0:27.8	So today Alex gives us some mind bending questions that force us to question our intuitions
0:35.4	around what is good and what is bad.
0:38.0	So today, expect to learn what does it mean to say that a thing is good?
0:42.0	Why should you do one thing instead of another?
0:44.3	Why should we care about well being?
0:46.0	What is the definition of suffering and on whose authority is anything good or bad?
0:51.3	Really sort of, it's an episode that you should be focused on while you're listening
0:57.4	to it.
0:58.4	Let's put it that way.
0:59.4	In other news, this episode of the podcast is brought to you by the protein works.
1:04.6	I am chewing through all of the stuff that my care package from the protein works got
1:09.1	sent out this week, and that included their super greens powder, which I keep popping
1:13.5	on about, and I'm going to keep doing it until you buy it because you need a super greens
1:17.6	powder in your life.
1:19.6	Even if you're a vegan like Messer O'Connor joining me today, you are not getting enough
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