Toby Buckle
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first heard Oct 2018
last heard Oct 2018
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our ways of viewing the world are and how much we have in common as opposed to
people who lived in the ancient Near East or something like that.
One thing my old advisor, Michael Freedom, who was on my podcast recently actually, used to say is
Where you are in terms of your moral intuitions
Is imagine you're looking at a big map of the countryside with all of the different contour lines and towns and settlements and hills.
Where you are and what's morally intuitive to you is the tiniest point on that map.
And what you view of the world is just the tiniest circle around it.
And it's worth understanding what the rest of that map has to offer because for one, there might be a
Point to stand on the map that's actually better.
But two, even if you want to hold down to where you're at, it's still just really cool and really fun to understand everything else that's going on on that map.
Because, like you said, like it's just interesting, even if you don't end up moving where you are, to have a sense of the vast.
context of time, the context of space, the context of human diversity both culturally and ideologically and
religiously even, that's just a valuable thing to have in your head for its own sake.
Yes.
Yes.
And of course if we really want to get into it when we're talking about the possible concept space of political belief systems, we're talking about a vast multidimensional space.
It's not just like a left-right axis.
It's like how we understand different concepts, the relative salience of each concept, the
Not only that, but the epistemological understandings of the world.
It's vast and it's impossible to even conceptualize, so I
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