Episode #191 ... The modern day concentration camp and the failure of human rights. (Giorgio Agamben)

Philosophize This!

Stephen West

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 December 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today we talk about the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben. Human rights, a political tactic to dehumanize groups that has been growing in popularity, governments declaring states of emergency and how the concept of potential may in fact be a unifying force. https://www.philosophizethis.org Sponsors: Hello Fresh: https://www.HelloFresh.com/ptfree Better Help: https://www.BetterHelp.com/PHILTHIS

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0:00.0	Hello everyone I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.
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0:25.2	post we do on Patreon. Anyway, hope you all love the show today. So the other day I was taking a walk
0:30.6	with my friend around my neighborhood. It was like 4.30 in the morning. It was about 20 degrees Fahrenheit outside, so well below freezing.
0:38.0	Grounds covered in frost and black ice. It's pitch black outside. I'm sliding around everywhere trying to get a morning walk in at
0:45.4	4.30 in the morning like a complete genius here. And then my friend who
0:50.2	doesn't read any philosophy, he turns to me as we're doing all this and he says,
0:54.0	so this guy you're talking about. Georgio Agambin. What's his whole deal?
0:58.3	You got any idea of what you're going to say this week? And right when he asked me that,
1:01.9	I'm walking downhill and I hit this giant patch of black ice
1:04.8	I'm just sliding downhill completely out of control and and as I'm Tokyo drifting down the sidewalk of my neighborhood
1:12.3	my head's in a totally different place.
1:14.2	And the first thing I can think to say back to him
1:16.0	is, well, first thing you got to know about him
1:18.1	is that he's not really a big fan of human rights.
1:21.1	That's what I led with. And he stops and he looks at me and he's like, wait, what? What? Who is this guy? Chairman Mao? What kind of person could possibly be against the concept of human rights.
1:33.0	And this is such a pure response from anybody that's been raised in Western culture
1:37.5	that's come to know human rights as one of the most sacred things we have as part of our political process.
1:42.0	It was my response when I first heard
1:44.4	about these ideas years ago and it can be so mysterious at first. Like why would
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