A conversation with Bashshar Haydar - professor of philosophy and the Mohammad Atallah chair of ethics at the American University of Beirut.

Click to watch: https://youtu.be/kBFTpM-J3QY

Discussing the wider topic of war ethics in philosophy, difficulties of academic/scholarly debate in times of ongoing and harrowing strife & his views on last week’s canceled AUB event, including the fallout that ensued.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

4:05 Ethics

26:58 'Unprovoked'

29:55 Context

39:25 Guest in question

58:32 Academia

1:15:27 'Cancel culture'

1:31:29 A life worth living