Episode 3: "We believe in nothing!" (Cultural diversity, relativism, and moral truth)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Tamler and Dave discuss recent work in philosophy and psychology about the differences in moral values and practices across cultures. We talk about the implications of moral diversity: does it mean that we cannot criticize that practices of other cultures? How should we regard moral disagreement? Are there objective “truths” in ethics? Somehow we need to play clips from The Big Lebowski and Pulp Fiction in order to resolve these questions.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:07.6	having an informal discussion about issues in science and ethics.
0:11.0	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out allowed to say, and knowing
0:15.6	my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:45.6	I'm a very good man, good man, they think it's false, and with no more brains than you have.
0:55.6	They know our attention, come on man, anybody can have a brain, you're a very bad man.
1:08.2	I'm a very good man, just a very bad wizard.
1:14.3	Welcome to very bad wizards, I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:18.3	And I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:21.3	You want some money or a box key?
1:25.3	Yeah, otherwise you'll kill the girl.
1:28.3	Yeah, it seems you have forgotten how I did to deal the box key.
1:31.3	You don't have a fucking girl dip chance, we know you never did.
1:36.3	Are these a Nazi woman?
1:38.3	It's not down to these men or nihilists, it's not to be a priest.
1:42.3	We don't have, we still want the money in the box to go away, fuck you off.
1:48.3	Fuck you.
1:49.3	Fuck the three of you.
1:51.3	No, without a hostage, there is no ransom.
1:55.3	That's what ransom is, those are the fucking rules.
1:58.3	His girlfriend gave up her toll.
2:00.3	She thought we'd be getting there, you got us.
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