Episode 648: The Origins of Moral Injury with Timothy Shaw, PhD
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Timothy has undertaken original research into how laws of war and deeper considerations of ethics and justice can inform our understanding of moral injury, the ‘signature sound’ of contemporary war.
He has taught ethics at university of Sydney and holds a research masters investigating the implications of just war theory - the most uninterrupted, longest-continuing study of moral decision-making known in the Western World - on psychological distress arising from preparative agency.
In addition, Tim received his PhD on the topic of moral injury, and the question of why killing is traumatic using the ethical optics of French philosopher, Emmannuel Levinas.
Tim is also editor of Great Philosophical Problems, a leading philosophical content publisher and leading voice in field of moral injury, Levinas and the just war tradition.
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| 1:28.0 | Five, four, three, 2, and 1. |
| 1:32.7 | Our folks, welcome back to the Trauma Therapist podcast. |
| 1:35.8 | Very excited to have back, Dr. Timothy Shaw. |
| 1:40.6 | Tim, welcome. |
| 1:42.3 | Thank you, guy. |
| 1:43.3 | And great to be back. All right. I appreciate it. |
| 1:45.9 | So Dr. Shaw studies the impact, origins, and implications of moral injury. He's undertaken |
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