Sunday, August 10, 2008

Spreading Ideas

Will Wilkinson from the Cato Institute (and a blogger at The Fly Bottle) and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord from the University of North Carolina discuss various ideas around ethics culminating in a look at whether you can get to the point of saying something is morally wrong or just another societies preference based on a different set of ideals.

So is it a case of `I like vanilla, you should like vanilla too'

or is it...

`I don't like killing babies so you shouldn't like killing babies too.'

There are lots and lots of sites you can get into whatever topic you are interested about.

Here are some I just discovered:

Bloggingheads (thanks Stu)
Big Think (thanks Grandpa Spanner)

and my favourite:

TED.com

1 comment:

mutt said...

I'd be interested to read further musings on this postcast. since we've been discussing ethics n all recently.

I also note that your disclaimer forbids acts of vengeance. So where should I commit them then?