About this episode
The episode discusses the failures of outdated governance concepts and proposes a new idea of anationality based on empathy and ethics.
It’s more clear than ever that outdated concepts of governance are failing the people, with horrifying results. Let’s embrace a new concept of anationality (which rejects nationalism as atheism rejects religion) and search for a more humane ethics of attention, empathy and unselfing, such as can be found in the philosophy of Iris Murdoch.
Topics covered
- governance
- nationalism
- philosophy
- ethics
- empathy
Keywords
- anationality
- Iris Murdoch
- humane ethics
- attention
- unselfing
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