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Dialogues #65 Read in browser↗️ Public discourse is ailing. Instead of yielding mutual understanding and respect, our debates are often infected with suspicions, accusations, belief polarization, and ideological entrenchment. One malady is what Richard Lipsky calls the athleticization of politics, “the transposition of sports values into political discourse”. - Robert Garcia and Nate King I had just finished teaching on consequentialism in my ethics class. If you’re not familiar with...
Dialogues #64 Read in browser↗️ "Contemporary philosophy as we practice it, the very analytical [philosophy]...we haven't done a very good job of finding things that resonate with people, even though there are so many things that we do that really should resonate with people." - L.A. Paul 🚨 Episode 18 of the podcast with L.A. Paul and the premiere of the new season is OUT! 🚨 If you subscribe to this newsletter, you know I've been thinking about the idea of transformative experience for a...
Dialogues #63 Read in browser↗️ "Sitting for even five minutes with a journal offers a rare cease-fire in the battle of daily life." - Alexandra Johnson I had no idea how much people loved notebooks, but Notebook People are passionate people. And for good reason. I first learned about the world of notebooks through my friend Parker Settecase. (You can see my conversation with him here.) The brief back story is that Parker has a podcast and channel called Parker's Pensées, where he interviews...