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This is the video from our March Philosophy Pop-Up on YouTube Live. Since we have the inaugural SOPHIA Milwaukee event coming up soon, I decided to focus on the theme of that event - Where Justice and Kindness meet up.

Are these opposed to each other? Do they require each other? I discuss several different perspectives on this matter, including Stoic, Utilitarian, Kantian, and Ethics of Care views.

As is usually the case, with these sessions, we went overtime, and veered off into a lot of other topics as well!

1:42 Justice and benevolence Intro
3:29 Stoics on Justice and benevolence
5:02 Milwaukee Chapter SOPHIA Event Info
7:32 Cicero on Justice
9:19 Bentham and Kant on Justice
13:46 Ethics of Care
16:58 Kindness as willing the good of the other
17:44 Objective morality and justice?
18:42 Local Chapters Greg is involved with.
20:44 Justice and peace?
24:24 Spinoza and his ethics?
26:01 Kindness and how much is enough
29:23 Isn’t compassion a stoic passion?
31:40 What do you think about Rorty’s views on ethics?
31:02 Is kindness the willingness to do the right thing for the purpose even if it’s no the optimal decision for yourself?
35:00 Is kindness doing the right thing for the person even if they don’t think so?
36:07 “Against Empathy” case for justice being impaired by caring
36:57 How does one define kindness when one does not know what the motivations of one’s actions are? Also, how do we draw the line between benevolence and self-serving action disguised as such?
38:41 Can you compel kindness or does kindness need to be self-generated?
41:26 Have you read the Trial of Eichmann?
42:00 What do you think if any is an argument for a role in emotion and moral reasoning in action rather than opposing emotion?
45:18 What is the difference between highly theoretical abstract treatments of philosophical topics and more practical considerations?
46:58 What’s the best books you have read recently?
49:07 Would true justice necessarily involve a degree of mutual trust?
50:06 History of America, would it fall under free will or social contract?
51:19 Have philosophers ever talked about to reach people who are ostensible unwilling or uninclined to engage the argument debate exploration dialogue dialectic?
51:51 What do you make of Steven Pinker’s characterization of Nietzsche’s philosophy is destructive and responsible for Nazism, communism and right wing libertarianism?
53:33 Is there a clear difference in the understanding of kindness between those who assert that man is a social being and those who do not?
55:08 Do you think that stoicism upholds or defends strict social hierarchy or the caste system?
55:43 How does virtue ethics relate to stoic ethics?
56:44 in a stoic perspective how would you apply justice and kindness to yourself
59:12 Have you ever thought about starting a podcast?
60:41 Does stoicism define goodness about an individual’s place in the social hierarchy?
61:39 Do you think there is such a thing as human nature as in a baseline for what a human is ought to be?
63:55 Can you tell us a story about your bookcase?
65:32 What work can get me out of logical deterministic thinking?
66:46 What type of man do you think Epictetus was back in the day? What would he be like if he was alive today?
68:25 Does free will exist?
68:40 Philosophy and the occult
69:03 Have you studied Islamic philosophy in any depth?
70:18 What are your favourite ancient Greek concepts that don’t have exact translations or equivalents in modern Western thought?
71:17 How was your experience as a philosophy undergrad?
72:46 My roommate is doing Foucault, what should we talk about?
73:46 Do you think kindness requires sacrifice or a promise of heaven? Or do we show kindness so that you don’t feel bad about the other persons suffering?
75:00 Can you give a brief synopsis of stoic logic?
75:33 Did philosophy go downhill after Hegel?
75:48 Is there anyway to channel the Diogenes mindset to the modern capitalist system?
76:44 How can you tell is you are suffering from a psychological problem or a philosophical problem?
77:35 Do you believe Hegel’s work was a uniquely Christian project?
79:20 Closing remarks