Plato's Cave
A philosophy podcast hosted by the lowly grad student, Jordan Myers
We found 8 episodes of Plato's Cave with the tag “vice”.
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Ep. 73 - Chris Franklin: Valuing (Angry) Blame
June 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 47 mins
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In the final discussion of the series, we dive into Franklin's work on the value of angry blame: can anger best--really, only--express certain features of am adequate response to wrongdoing?
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Ep. 72 - Amia Srinivasan: The Aptness of Anger
June 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 29 mins
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We dive into Srinivasan's amazing (but at the end of the day, I think not fully right) paper, "The Aptness of Anger."
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Ep. 71 - Martha Nussbaum on Anger and Forgiveness (Part 2)
March 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 27 mins
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Part two of Martha Nussbaum's book, Anger and Forgiveness.
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Ep. 70 - Martha Nussbaum's Anger and Forgiveness (Part 1)
March 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 48 mins
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In the second episode of our series on anger, we dive into the first chapters of Martha Nussbaum's recent book, Anger and Forgiveness. The first two chapters focus on the myth of payback's value.
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Ep. 61 - Glen Pettigrove: Meekness and Moral Anger
April 7th, 2023 | 1 hr 4 mins
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I speak with Glen Pettigrove about his paper "Meekness and Moral Anger." We discuss his attempt to breathe new life into meekness as a virtue, his diagnosis of anger's downsides, and the ways in which meekness can avoid these pitfalls.
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Ep. 15 - Brandon Warmke: Moral Grandstanding
September 25th, 2020 | 52 mins 42 secs
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In this episode, I speak with Brandon Warmke about his new book, Grandstanding, which he co-authored with Justin Tosi. Brandon is a professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University. I highly recommend the book, and I hope this talk does it justice. I very much enjoyed speaking with Brandon, and I hope you enjoy our conversation as well.
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Ep. 2.5 - Aristotelian Virtue Ethics vs Consequentialism
March 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
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In this episode, In this episode, Jordan, Brian, and Adam discuss the possible shortcomings of Aristotelian ethics as opposed to consequentialism or deontology. Plus, a quibble on moral relativism.
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Ep. 2.4 - Aristotle's Virtue Ethics
March 15th, 2020 | 1 hr 11 mins
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Part 1 of a 2 part series on Aristotelian virtue ethics.