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Episode 19 - Social Science: Historicism, Social Engineering, and the Case of Edward Bernays

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Episode 19 - Social Science: Historicism, Social Engineering, and the Case of Edward Bernays
Larry Fike

Who was right? Plato, Aristotle, neither, or both? Tough questions deserving a lifetime of study, or so thinks MoFo. What did Karl Popper think? (Hint: It wasn’t Plato!) Once Popper distinguishes historicism from social engineering as two strains within social thought, the strange case of Edward Bernays may make your skin crawl. As Bernays may have intended it! Listen in . . .

Episode 14 - Human Flourishing: Plato and Aristotle

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Episode 14 - Human Flourishing: Plato and Aristotle
Larry Fike

Episode 2 - Human Flourishing, Aristotelian-Style

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Episode 2 - Human Flourishing, Aristotelian-Style
Larry Fike

“How are you? I’m good.” Why do we begin conversations this way? Are we all, as a species, striving to be good? Are we cooperative well-wishers, and is this a part of our biology? Aristotle thought he knew, and therapists seem to think that they do, too. Maybe it “takes an internet” to maximize human flourishing. So join the conversation!

[‘Casuistry’ was misspelled during the broadcast, and it means: the resolving of moral problems by application of theoretical rules to particular instances.]