PEL Presents Philosophy vs. Improv #42: The Worth of a Human Life w/ Carneades the YouTube Star
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2022
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
The anonymous policy wonk who runs the Carneades.org YouTube channel joins Mark and Bill to discuss the core concept of his new book, Are All Lives Equal?: Why Cost-Benefit Analysis Values Rich Lives More and How Philosophy Can Fix It.
Should economics really be measuring the value of life at all? Can it do this in any principled way? Can economists really understand how much joy cat videos really bring us? What should parasitic micro-organisms value? Were all the world's religions originally infections diseases? No question is off the table!
Mark philosophizes at partiallyexaminedlife.com.
Bill improvises (and teaches) at chicagoimprovstudio.com.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Philosophy vs Improv where two stages |
| 0:07.7 | try to teach each other a thing or two |
| 0:09.5 | and maybe you the audience gets something out of it as well. |
| 0:12.4 | My name is Bill Arnett, an Improv |
| 0:14.7 | efficient ready to dig into philosophy. |
| 0:17.6 | My name is Mark Linton-Meyer, a philosophy |
| 0:20.0 | aficionado who is interested in improv. |
| 0:24.5 | And our special guest today introduced yourself. |
| 0:26.8 | Hi, I'm Karnati's, the creator of the Karnati |
| 0:29.9 | 's.org YouTube channel. |
| 0:31.9 | And I'm really excited to be here. |
| 0:33.9 | Well, we are excited to have you. |
| 0:35.9 | You are someone who is promoting a book. |
| 0:38.9 | Are all lives equal? |
| 0:40.9 | 420 pages. |
| 0:42.9 | I didn't get through the whole thing. |
| 0:44.9 | I barely scratched it, but that's okay. |
| 0:45.9 | The audience is not either. |
| 0:46.9 | There's pictures and graphics in there too. |
| 0:48.9 | So if you read the first chapter and then want to |
| 0:51.9 | skim through or jump to other chapters, |
| 0:53.9 | it's hopefully accessible. |
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