T. M. Scanlon on What We Owe to Each Other

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.7 • 963 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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T. M. Scanlon, one of the world's preeminent moral philosophers, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity at Harvard University until his retirement. In his seminal work, What We Owe to Each Other, Scanlon gives a liberal account of how to reason through what it takes to act justly in matters of morality as well as politics. In this week’s conversation, T. M. Scanlon and Yascha Mounk discuss the true meaning of tolerance, how to decide whether an action is morally right or wrong, and why the question of free will isn’t as important as you might think. 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: podcast@persuasion.community Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by John Taylor Williams, 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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0:00.0	At Barclays, we're here for every goal.
0:06.4	We're here for the Premier League,
0:09.0	and the Barclays Women's Super League.
0:12.0	We're here for the football chance for giving more girls a chance.
0:18.0	We're here for the grassroots and all the muddy boots. From schools to stadiums, we're here for it all.
0:27.6	Barclays, here for every goal. And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:47.0	Oh, hi, greetings from Calcutta. My name is Debashishtrai. I'm a journalist and co-author of recent book titled
1:00.3	A Dukiller Democracy India's Passage to despotism. I recently wrote an article for
1:05.8	persuasion on the slow death of Gandhi's India. It explains how India's
1:11.6	a Hindu nationalist government led by Prime Minister Modi is slowly
1:16.8	dismantling the pillars of inclusive democracy on which India was founded.
1:21.6	Now anybody who cares about democracy
1:24.3	anywhere in the world or should care about what's
1:27.2	happening in India.
1:28.8	I wrote the book as well as this persuasion is said
1:32.0	to tell the wider world about it.
1:35.2	India has a population of 1.3 billion people,
1:39.0	and if India ceases to become a multicultural democracy,
1:42.4	it will be a major setback to the idea of democracy itself.
1:46.7	If India transitions to despotism, the democratic world will be in the minority. Democracy will lose globally if it loses in India. So I hope we will read the
1:57.2	article. It's again titled the slow death of Gandhi's India to understand
2:01.6	just how democracy is crumbling in India and what lessons it has for the rest of the world.
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