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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Steven Pinker’s Weak Defense of Enlightenment Values vs. Religion
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Podcast audio:
In this episode of the Ayn Rand Institute podcast, Onkar Ghate and Ben Bayer discuss a recent essay by Steven Pinker and Marian Tupy (“The Golden Age of Humanity? We’re Living In It”) that aims to offer a secular alternative to the recent resurgence in religious culture.
Topics include:
The Anti-Enlightenment Phenomenon;
Pinker and Tupy’s secular strengths;
A weak critique of Christian morality;
Christian morality and antisemitism;
Understanding the crisis of meaning;
Unphilosophical moral foundations;
Alternative, Pro-Enlightenment moral foundation.
Resources:
“The Objectivist Ethics,” Ayn Rand
“Finding Morality and Happiness W...