Graham Priest
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386 appearances
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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The aim is to act compassionately.
Now what is the most compassionate thing?
That's always going to be a really hard call.
That's not obvious at all, uh even in very mundane circumstances, you know.
So you're a doctor
Some Jehovah's Witnesses come with a sick child and they say, Well, you know
We don't want a kid to have a blood transfusion.
Well, what do you do as a doctor?
I mean
Do you act compassionately to the parents or the kid?
Okay.
Well, that's, you know, a hard choice and you have to decide what is the best thing to do.
You know, virtually anything, any decision you take is going to have good consequences and bad consequences, and figuring out what the best thing or balance is not going to be easy.
I mean it's what fr Aristotle called Phreneusis, you know, practical wisdom to implement these decisions.
So I mean no one said ethical decisions were easy.
So I've become convinced, thinking about these issues, that ideologies of central importance.
Why is that?
Because well, David Hume asked the following question.
If you look at power structures, they almost always function for the benefit of the people in power.
Okay.
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