Mark Hopwood
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1,269 appearances
31 recordings
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first heard Jul 2009
last heard Sep 2014
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Yes.
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And these are the ideals that are the ideals of the liberal society.
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Now, your mention of this problem of motivation suggests that where you want to go is to say that our political systems should be based on something more like faith, that there should be some kind of deeper notion of commitment at the base of them.
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Mm-hmm.
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Clearly that's an idea that some people will find disturbing, but I wondered if you could expand on it.
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Is that the kind of view that you want and if so how does it work?
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And I'm Mark Hopwood.
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So it seems like from what you've said there are two kinds of questions, at least at first, that we might ask about testimony.
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So one is the descriptive kind of question.
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How do we actually treat testimony?
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As a matter of fact, what do we human beings do?
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How do we treat the testimony of others?
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And then there's a question that might be connected to that, which is the normative or the prescriptive question.
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How should we treat testimony?
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And there you've mentioned there's a very strong tradition of thinking
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Well we should all things be equal at first, trust estimate.
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That's where we start from.
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And we need reasons not to trust other people's testimony, but not to trust their testimony.
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In the absence of any reasons not to trust them, we trust them.
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And that, as you've suggested, does seem like a fairly plausible view to have, but it's a view that you've raised some problems with.
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