Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Pricing
Podcast Image

EA Forum Podcast (All audio)

“Longtermism: An Impracticable Attempt to Reason Our Way into Becoming Irrationally Generous Heroes?” by Fr Peter Wyg

15 Oct 2025

Description

"If we recognise that it is a part of human nature to be prepared to sacrifice for others principally through emotive relationships and a lived experience of solidarity and empathy, we are left facing the awkward reality that, as a facet of cosmic complexity, utilitarianism, so well equipped to recognise the need to develop our relationship with future generations, may not be well equipped to do anything about it." A common frustration for those visiting Rome is the impossibility of seeing everything. Even those committed to score-of-thousand stepped and stomach-stretching days merely scratch at the interwoven cultural strands densely packed over millennia into a hard surface. This is one reason why I am grateful for having studied there, eight years being time enough to reach a working familiarity with the city's seemingly endless sources of spiritual, aesthetic, and earthly refreshment. My last weeks in the eternal city, then, were [...] --- First published: October 15th, 2025 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ea2cvo2H3Sc6rKJmz/longtermism-an-impracticable-attempt-to-reason-our-way-into --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.

Audio
Featured in this Episode

No persons identified in this episode.

Transcription

This episode hasn't been transcribed yet

Help us prioritize this episode for transcription by upvoting it.

0 upvotes
🗳️ Sign in to Upvote

Popular episodes get transcribed faster

Comments

There are no comments yet.

Please log in to write the first comment.