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Episode 20: Would You Do Bad Things if You Knew You Could Get Away With It?

Episode 20: Would You Do Bad Things if You Knew You Could Get Away With It?

FromTerrifying Questions


Episode 20: Would You Do Bad Things if You Knew You Could Get Away With It?

FromTerrifying Questions

ratings:
Length:
56 minutes
Released:
Jul 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician Fred Armisen joins Eric and Taylor this week to ponder the twin mysteries of morality and moral motivation. Do we do good only out of a fear of blame and punishment? Would most people do wrong, if they knew no one was looking? Tune in and learn what Plato said Gyges did with the invisibility ring he found in a ditch. Also find out what Fred thinks Stone Age comedy probably looked like. 
Released:
Jul 17, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (50)

Eric Kaplan, a comedy writer (Futurama, Big Bang Theory) and doctor of philosophy, and Taylor Carman (Barnard College, Columbia University), a distinguished but humble authority on matters of existence and existentialism, host a philosophy podcast that addresses the most unsettling questions concerning human life and the nature of things and finds a path to courage using comedy, imagination, and far-ranging intellectual philosophical investigation. Along the way they grapple with the deep uncanniness of being.