Episode 156: Philosophy and Politics Free-Form Discussion (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Continuing our liberal bubble-bursting exercise, the core foursome address more directly the question of how philosophy is supposed to shape one's political views and actions. On a non-partisan "public good" and rhetorical strategies in the face of an apathetic and/or ignorant public.
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| 0:09.0 | Hey, you're listening to Parts of the Exam in Life. |
| 0:18.5 | This is episode 156 Part 2. |
| 0:20.8 | We're talking about the political life. |
| 0:23.0 | Our reading is nothing. |
| 0:24.2 | You should definitely listen to Part 1 first, where we were just pundits for quite a long |
| 0:28.3 | time. |
| 0:29.3 | I'm hoping I can redirect us a little bit from consideration of the specific things that |
| 0:35.1 | are going on in politics, although we can still keep bringing those up back to the issue |
| 0:40.2 | of how has studying philosophy, studying political philosophy prepared us in any way to make |
| 0:46.8 | these sort of analysis that we've been making to make more intelligent political decisions |
| 0:52.0 | to act as citizens in any way. |
| 0:55.8 | One of the points we made in our very first episode was it seems like philosophers who |
| 1:00.6 | study ethics aren't necessarily more ethical. |
| 1:03.0 | Well, the studying politics make us more rational in our political assessments or anything |
| 1:08.4 | like that. |
| 1:09.4 | Well, it's not the way I took your question, Mark. |
| 1:11.5 | Maybe your take is more interesting. |
| 1:12.9 | Well, I don't know if that's true, but I would say that having studied political philosophy |
| 1:18.4 | infuses the way I think about politics and the way I think about thinking about political |
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