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The Good Fight

Martha Nussbaum on Living (and Eating) Morally

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6907 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss how to reflect on a life lived well. Martha Nussbaum is a philosopher and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago. Nussbaum is the author of many books, including, most recently, Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Martha Nussbaum discuss the need for an overlapping consensus between citizens of profoundly different beliefs; how regarding animals as sentient beings might change our behavior towards them; and why one ought to be a “happy warrior” for moral causes. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Now there were cases in India that I've studied in my work and development where

0:36.6

parents thought how can I send my child to school because I need to use the child

0:41.1

for labor.

0:42.6

But then what the government of first Tom L.

0:45.4

And then Kerala did was to say, well, you know,

0:47.7

this government can intervene in a helpful way.

0:50.4

We can have, first of all, flexible school hours hours so the children can do both but then we will

0:56.5

provide in the school a nutritious midday meal and now it's been generalized to the whole

1:02.4

nation and the Supreme Court of India

1:04.7

even prescribes how many calories and how many grams of protein must be in the

1:09.6

midday meal in the school and that cuts through that dilemma to at least some extent because it's a win-win rather than a win-lose in sending your child to school.

1:19.0

People are clever and they can innovate their way around a lot of these terrible problems if they just are approached with goodwill

1:27.1

rather than the sense of oh humanity is bad

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