Virtue and vice | Rebecca Roache, Matthew Taylor, Hilary Lawson
22Rebecca Roache, Matthew Taylor and Hilary Lawson discuss whether our belief in morality is a dangerous fantasy.
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Many would argue that for at least a century we have been moving away from the moral certainties of traditional Christianity. Yet now a new form of moral certainty is reappearing, with much of our culture seemingly gripped by a focus on virtue and a tightly policed sense of right and wrong.
Should we welcome this return to virtue and embrace a moralism that will purge society of its newly found sins? Or are these certainties a new prejudice and the intolerant assertion of tribal attachments? Is our culture morally bankrupt in need of greater virtue, or could we be in the early stages of a Salem witch trial?
Chief Executive of The RSA and former head of the No. 10 Policy Unit Matthew Taylor, ethicist Rebecca Roache and philosopher and Closure theorist Hilary Lawson ask whether it's time to move beyond our fixation on morality is misguided. Author Danielle Sands hosts.
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Rebecca Roache is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she works on various issues in applied philosophy. Her work has been featured in The Times, The Guardian and the BBC. She is also a coach, and host of The Academic Imperfectionist podcast.
Matthew Taylor is a British former political strategist and current Chief Executive of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in the United Kingdom since 2006. In 2005, he was appointed by incumbent Prime Minister Tony Blair as head of the Number 10 Policy Unit.
Hilary Lawson is a philosopher and award-winning broadcaster who has been hosting IAI TV’s philosophy and global politics debate strands since 2010.
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