Episode #168 ... Introduction to an Ethics of Care

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[ponzi]

Your podcast is what urged me to pursue BA Philosophy for college. Thank you for changing my life ❤️

[HenrikMyrhaug]

This is by far the best explanation on the topic I have found!

[donomar]

This video is REALLY outstanding and insightful. It definitely brings an added value to the viewers. You absolutely do an amazing work and we thank you for that.

[zokymasa]

Listening to you on a summer evenig in a garden right outside of Paris. Could I ask for more? 😁

[BrassicaRappa]

This overlaps with thoughts I've been having about language and brains and how they work together. Like it feels like the language part of my brain is more in the foreground and more "visible" to the part of my mind you might call my "conscious" mind. And how that can affect how I tend to think about things. Like if I focus to heavily on just the language processing part, my thinking can look more like rationalization than actual reason, as opposed to when I bring my emotional and intuitive sections into the equation, which give me deeper access to...well I'm not sure what exactly - or rather, it's harder to translate into language, but it's like a deeper part of my brain that holds concepts and senses of things from experience - and is also more imaginative and able to do things like empathize and hypothesize.

I was socialized as a male in a moderately conservative community, so I can only guess - but it feels like the female taking the test is doing a better job at actually imagining herself in the situation, while the male is kind of...idealizing the situation. Which could be because she's socially closer to actually being in that position, so it's easier for her to actually put *herself* in the situation?

Like I bet if the male were *actually* in that position, the idea of going through the literal process of breaking and entering and stealing the medication would be really scary and uncomfortable, and he'd put a *lot* more effort into finding alternatives before going that route, if he ever mustered the courage to do it at all.

I can only guess at the mental process each of them are going through I guess. Whatever the mechanism though, what wonderful insight!!

I also love the very practical point of "medicine isn't magic, and if I'm arrested, the wife would lose her caretaker."

What a great episode!

[yeonieee]

Not just because of how you explain but also your voice is really suit on teaching and making this video. I really appreciate it!!

[GoddessStone]

Thank you, this is so appreciated and lovely to hear on a warm summer night on Lake Constance. Perhaps the trolley thought experiment is hard to pin down, because it can be altered in a hundred ways, but it can never be pure. The experiment could never be real, because of the human element. Humans can take in massive amounts of information in a split second, and all of those would have to be included in the question. They say either it's an old man or children, fat man and 3 skinny men, etc. The question has to include many situations, plus the mood we are in, our pain level, if our mother forgot our birthday, if we ate or slept the night before, here there are billions of scenarios that can't be included. There was a movie where Tom Hank's character and his co-pilot were on trial for crash landing. Every expert ran simulations and said all of them could have landed. Other pilots over and over, land the plane. The difference was, all of them knew what was going to happen beforehand to the second and immediately knew the goal. However, in the real situation, they had to first establish what the problem really was, and agree on the best course, talk with ground control...the circumstances would have to be exact, down to your birth sign and relative humidity, to even be able to answer the question. This is why I love philosophy, because it helps us see, the possibilities are truly endless. Good night everyone, I am glad you are all here.

[ParkerPPK]

Was a blast playing with you, can't wait to listen!

[lunalevi]

this is one of my favourite podcasts and one of my favourite episodes 🙌

[christinemartin]

Holy cow ... never heard of this experiment. This topic is worth pondering deeply 🤔

[dlloydy]

This is a fantastic episode. Really looking forward to this series. Thank you Stephen

[agnostic]

This most definitely is challenging me to think out of the box...

Thank you very much. It's highly appreciated!

[nefwaenre]

i came here completely biased against subject, but by this here at 28:46 it broke me completely. All i do is care, and that is detriment to the miserable thing i call life. i care for my parents, and yet, i'm so unqualified to care for them. My brother is much more suited for this job, but all i do is worry about them, ask them questions, lecture them on their own safety (health, scams, whatnot). i can do nothing else, i'm not good at anything else. i will leave this podcast with a changed viewpoint and quite interested in Ethics of care. Thank you.

[standowner]

Oh my goodness! This episode was amazing.

[baronbullshyster]

Very good Mr West loved it.
Duty of care. To listen to other peoples concerns! Imagine a world where this would happen ! 🧐 it’s a lot easier to make them reprehensible and have another donut.

[Bailey-feyr]

Finally getting caught up on your episodes. Thank you for doing episodes about women. It’s so refreshing.

But seriously, this is the bridge to a conversation about patriarchy and white supremacy. Woman and people of the global majority have been trying to talk about these connections for years!

[Arygo]

About the trolley problem...

If the people are far enough away from the junction one can set the junction half-way making the trolley de-rail, or if that's not possible pull the lever after the first set of wheels have passed, making the trolley de-rail that way. If there are people on board, and the trolley is moving slowly they would have a decent chance at not being injured badly, if the trolley is going very fast one might not be able to successfully pull the lever at the correct time, but if someone pulls it off the people might still have a shot at living compared to the ones on the track.

No need to tell me that the trolley problem isn't meant have this as an option when answering.

[TioOlavoDoBaralho]

23:46 that’s why the idea of a “self-made man” is ridiculous. Thanks for that podcast! 🙏

[mlingafelt]

Humans have a bias because humans have an ego. Ideally we should be practicing habits that reduce our ego which in return will reduce our need to be right or "on the right side of things" and be more willing to change as we gain more information about a subject.

[BrassicaRappa]

Heading echoes of Derrick Bell here! This better not turn into CRITICAL RACE THEORY! 😄😉

Loving this!