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LLM8. MM McCabe on Love and Desire in Plato’s Symposium [Leeds Love Month special episode]
03/18/24 • 28 min
A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Professor MM McCabe on love and desire in Plato’s symposium.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/mm-mccabe
Book your place at our public event with Gavin Esler, "Dead Cats, Strategic Lying and Truth Decay", here.
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A special episode from the Leeds Love Month live talks series, featuring Professor MM McCabe on love and desire in Plato’s symposium.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/mm-mccabe
Book your place at our public event with Gavin Esler, "Dead Cats, Strategic Lying and Truth Decay", here.
Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.
Twitter/X: @EthicsUntangled
Bluesky: @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ideacetl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idea-ethics-centre/
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Introducing Leeds Love Month [Leeds Love Month special episode]
A quick introduction to our special series of episodes featuring recordings from the Leeds Love Month live events organised by the Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships at the University of Leeds.
In October 2023, Centre for Love, Sex and Relationships at the University of Leeds ran a series of events under the Love Month banner. There were some really interesting talks, and we thought we'd release them as a special series of Ethics Untangled episodes. So we're giving you them all in one go, and they won't affect the standard episodes, which will carry on going out according to the usual schedule.
Here's a list of episodes:
Finn MacKay on queer identities and attraction
Tom O’Shea on whether we can be responsible for our attractions
Kate Lister on whether we evolved to be monogamous
Pilar Lopez-Cantero on experiences of breakup, and how to move on well
Troy Jollimore on whether we love for reasons
MM McCabe on love and desire in Plato’s symposium
Brian Earp on the ethics of psychedelically-assisted relationship therapy
Robbie Arrell on consent issues raised by teledildonic technology
Book your place at our public event with Gavin Esler, "Dead Cats, Strategic Lying and Truth Decay", here.
Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.
Twitter/X: @EthicsUntangled
Bluesky: @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ideacetl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idea-ethics-centre/
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15. Do Politicians With Dirty Hands Owe Reparations to Victims? With Christina Nick
Politicians sometimes have to make decisions where there is no option that looks good, morally speaking. They may have to get their hands dirty, acting in a way that looks immoral - sometimes powerfully so - in order to avoid some greater evil. This is called the problem of dirty hands, and it's long been of interest to philosophers. However, most of the philosophical work about dirty hands has focused on the person whose hands are dirty: have they acted wrongly, are they blameworthy, how should we respond to them? Christina Nick, a philosopher based at the IDEA Centre, is more interested in the victims of dirty-handed politicians. These victims may have been subjected to quite profound harms as a result of the actions of politicians who were trying to avoid some even worse harm. What does it look like to treat these victims justly? Specifically, are they owed reparations? And if so, what form should these reparations take, and should these reparations be made by, or on behalf of, the politicians who made the decision?
Christina Nick is a Lecturer in Applied Ethics atthe IDEA Centre at the University of Leeds. Her PhD thesis “The Problem of Democratic Dirty Hands” examined how we should understand the occurence of moral conflict for public office holders and how we ought to ascribe moral responsibility for the outcomes of such actions in modern democracies.
Here's an article about the Claudy bombing on the BBC website:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-62332152
...and the Police Ombudsman's report into the bombing:
https://www.policeombudsman.org/Investigation-Reports/Historical-Reports/Police-Ombudsman-s-Claudy-report
Here's an introduction to the philosophical problem of dirty hands in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/dirty-hands/
Book your place at our public event with Gavin Esler, "Dead Cats, Strategic Lying and Truth Decay", here.
Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.
Twitter/X: @EthicsUntangled
Bluesky: @ethicsuntangled.bsky.social
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ideacetl
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/idea-ethics-centre/
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