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SIO152: Philosopher Elizabeth Picciuto on Trump's Moral Code

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Elizabeth Picciuto wrote an article on Trump's ethics and how his ethical code centers around basically one value: loyalty to him. We discuss the article, different ethical systems, and the limits and drawbacks of loyalty as a virtue. After that, we talk about a tweet of hers which went massively viral. In it, she lamented that the state of our politics has a lot to do with the decline in the Humanities. Leave Thomas a voicemail! (916) 750-4746, remember short and to the point! Support the show at seriouspod.com/support! Follow us on Twitter: @seriouspod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seriouspod For comments, email thomas@seriouspod.com

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to serious inquiries only this is episode 152 I'm your host Thomas Smith and I have a very

0:36.5

interesting episode for you today an interview with philosopher Dr Elizabeth Pichuto

0:42.4

she wrote an article on Trump's moral code. You might not think he has one, but she thinks he has one of a certain kind, and we talk about that a lot of other things really fun. We also talk about a

0:53.8

tweet of hers that went viral about the humanities and how the decline in

0:58.0

our politics might have something to do with the decline in the

1:02.2

humanities and people's understanding of the

1:04.3

humanities. Before we get to that though I just want to take a second to plug some

1:08.0

things that I don't plug too often and one of those is comedy Shushine my

1:11.8

comedy podcast if you need something to laugh with

1:15.3

there's it was a really funny episode this week my brother Sam almost burned his house down

1:20.3

and that was hilarious as all as hilarious as it sounds and it just was a really fun episode and you should check it out if you need something more casual and laid back and funny.

1:32.6

And then also philosophers in space,

1:35.0

that show has been absolutely killing it.

1:37.4

And this week, we had a really cool discussion

1:41.7

about kind of time paradoxes and stuff like that centered around

1:46.3

the short story and the movie Minority Report.

1:49.2

We talked about both of them.

1:50.5

They're very different actually, vastly different, but they're both good in

1:53.4

different ways and we had a really cool discussion around those kind of things.

1:58.6

So check out those shows if you haven't. I don't often plug other shows on here and I mean really I could

2:04.3

plug them every week but I feel like that would be annoying so I don't so I

2:07.6

I think I've chosen to just forget to ever do it and so I just remembered it I

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