Agnes Callard on Aspiration

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🗓️ 28 September 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Where do our deepest personal values come from? Can we choose those values? Philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University of Chicago talks about her book, Aspiration, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Callard explores the challenge of aspiration--who we are versus who we would like to become. How does aspiration work? How can we transform ourselves when we cannot know how it will feel to be transformed? Callard discusses these questions and more in this provocative episode.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:12.6	I'm your host Russ Roberts of George Mason University and Stanford University's Hoover
0:17.3	Institution.
0:18.7	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, find other episodes, comment on this podcast,
0:25.9	and find links to other information related to today's conversation.
0:29.9	Our email address is mailadicontalk.org.
0:33.6	We'd love to hear from you.
0:35.0	Today is August 25th, 2020 and my guest is philosopher and author Agnes Callard of the University
0:43.6	of Chicago.
0:44.6	I want to thank Plantronics for providing her with the Blackwire 5220 headset.
0:49.8	This is Agnes' second appearance on e-con talk.
0:52.1	She was here in June of 2020, discussing philosophy, progress, and wisdom.
0:56.6	Our topic for today is her book, Asperation, the Agency of Becoming.
1:01.8	Agnes, welcome back to e-con talk.
1:04.1	Thanks.
1:05.8	What is aspiration?
1:09.5	Asperation is the rational process of value acquisition.
1:13.6	And what does that mean in everyday life?
1:17.3	Give us some examples.
1:18.7	It means.
1:19.7	So if you just think about like most of the things that you value right now, like in relation
1:24.4	to your career, or your kids, some hobbies you have, some of your like political values
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