The Ethical Frontier

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyHanno Sauer is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University.Website: https://www.hannosauer.com/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Good-Evil-History-Morality/dp/0197790259Summary:In this interview, we discuss Sauer's book on the invention of good and evil. Essentially, the book offers a new history of humanity, told through the prism of our ever-changing moral norms and values. With philosophical expertise and empirical data, Sauer explains how processes of biological, cultural, social, and historical evolution shaped the moral grammar that defines our present.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophySerena Parekh is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs at Northeastern University.Website: https://cssh.northeastern.edu/faculty/serena-parekh/Book: https://www.amazon.com/No-Refuge-Ethics-Global-Refugee/dp/0197507999Summary:Parekh argues that we need a moral response to these crises--one that assumes the humanity of refugees in addition to the challenges that states have when they accept refugees. Only once we grasp that the global refugee crisis has these two dimensions--the asylum crisis for Western states and the crisis for refugees who cannot find refuge--can we reckon with a response proportionate to the complexities we face. Countries and citizens have a moral obligation to address the structures that unjustly prevent refugees from accessing the minimum conditions of human dignity.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyBen Bradley is Allan and Anita Sutton Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University.Website: https://benbradleyweb.com/Summary:In this interview, we discuss the arguments in favor and against anti-natalism, which is the view that it's wrong to have kids. We also discuss how anti-natalism compares to deprivationism, which is a theory of the prudential value or disvalue of death.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyDr. Heidi Klessig is a retired anesthesiologist.Website: https://www.respectforhumanlife.com/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Brain-Death-Fallacy-Heidi-Klessig/dp/B0CL5VKJGYSummary:In this interview, Dr. Klessig describes a number of issues regarding the concept of brain death that ultimately suggest that brain-dead patients are not actually dead.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyTony spent 15 years in the white supremacist and neo-Nazi movements, starting as a skinhead and evolving to leadership positions. Website: https://sci.usc.edu/personnel/tony-mcaleer/Book: https://www.amazon.com/Cure-Hate-Supremacists-Extremism-Compassion/dp/1551527693Summary:In this interview, we discuss McAleer's journey into the white supremacist movement. He states that he experienced toxic shame and that this shame led him to search for acceptance from others. We also discuss some pivotal moments in his life that led him to leave the movement.

You can support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chenphilosophyEric Heinze is Professor of Law and Humanities at Queen Mary University of London.Website: https://ericheinze.com/Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049580/coming-clean/Summary:Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its “wokeness.”In Coming Clean, Eric Heinze rejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the left's own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a century—Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the Kim dynasty in North Korea.