Mark Hopwood
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1,269 appearances
31 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard Sep 2014
Mark Hopwood’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And one of the things that you emphasize about it yourself is that the capabilities approach is interested in individuals rather than,
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example, averages or...
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numbers or money, it's interested in individuals and their functioning.
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And it takes, in an important sense, the individual as central to the theory.
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But what if someone were to say, well, that's a very Western liberal democratic way of looking at it, and you might contrast it with the kind of approach to political life that said, well, in the ideal nation, people are going to have really different roles.
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You know, maybe the way that countries need to work is for one set of people to play one kind of role, one set of people to play another kind of role, that really our starting point should be some larger unit, right?
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the nation as a whole, or perhaps it should be the family, or perhaps it should be the village, but that making the individual the starting point is going to lead to perhaps some of the negative consequences of Western culture that theorists will often criticise.
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The bird case is an interesting one where it seems like there's already something that we could describe as altruism going on in in the case of an animal that's evolved that way.
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But as you've already alluded to, human beings are gonna look a lot more complex than that.
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And in one way, if they behave altruistically at all
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It seems like they do so often without regard to kin or who might happen to share their genes.
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So it seems like the kind of altruism we associate with human beings
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goes much further than that that we'd associate with birds.
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So it seems like the kind of explanations that evolutionary theory provides have been incredibly successful in all kinds of animal cases.
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We have really compelling accounts of the behaviour of birds.
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We can explain things that we could understand before through evolutionary theory.
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But might you not wonder whether in human beings there's this added complexity that has to do with as you've suggested, consciousness, the fact that we have ideas about all these things.
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And specifically we have reasons for acting.
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We give ourselves reasons, we give reasons to others.
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And you might think that our reasons could come apart from the explanation forwarding.
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