Morality

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Natural Sciences, History, Documentary, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 44.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2007

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Where does our sense of right and wrong come from?

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	You are listening to to, to, to radio lab.
0:06.6	Hi, I'm Robert Krollwitch.
0:08.1	And I'm Chad I'm Abramrod.
0:09.4	This is Radio Lab.
0:10.7	In this hour, we're going to examine a sense of moral justice.
0:14.5	Everybody knows that sometimes you feel something is right, sometimes you feel something
0:18.0	is wrong.
0:19.1	We want to know where does that feeling begin? Where does it come
0:23.3	from? How old is it? We are going to take you from playgroups to prisons, some brain scans in
0:29.2	between. Can we get started, please? Okay. Okay. Just going on a bit. Since this is an hour on
0:34.6	morality, why don't we start with two morality thought experiments? Are you with me? Begrudgingly, yeah. This is a famous problem originally posed in 1967 by the philosopher Philip Affut. There are two parts to this problem, and you're going to have to make a choice at the end of each one. Each one, what? You mean you're going to tell me a story. Yeah, I'm going to tell you a story. You're going to make a choice.
0:54.6	All right.
0:55.8	Part one.
0:56.4	You ready?
0:56.8	Yeah.
0:57.4	All right.
0:58.5	You're near some train tracks. Go there in your mind. Okay. There are five workers on the tracks working. They've got their backs turned to the trolley, which is coming in the distance.
1:09.3	I mean, they're repairing the track.
1:10.8	They are repairing the track.
1:11.5	This is unbeknownst to them, the trolley is approaching.
1:13.4	They don't the track.
1:11.6	This is unbeknownst to them, the trolley is approaching.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.