Emerge: Making Sense of What's Next

Zak Stein - The Eros of Ethics

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In this first conversation after a year sabbatical from the Emerge project I'm speaking with Zak Stein. This is a far ranging conversation about ethics, education, trauma, the erotics of moral understanding, and more. 

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Show Notes

  • 0:00 Opening
  • 0:03 How to create the kinds of humans who can respond to the meta-crisis?
  • 0:08 “We’re not sure what it means to be good anymore” / what’s worth loving
  • 0:09 Eros and Ethics / Ensoulment
  • 0:17 Moral development
  • 0:23 “How do you get someone interested in what is truly good?”
  • 0:25 Linking / meta-psychology
  • 0:29 Community ethics feedback loops
  • 0:33 Objective ethics
  • 0:37 Embodied ethical sensing
  • 0:38 Intersection between Trauma & Ethics, desensitization, somatic de-armoring
  • 0:43 Trust, return of the Sacred
  • 0:47 The Moral Exemplar
  • 0:52 Exposure to the full ethical range
  • 0:54 “Trauma” in culture
  • 0:62 Evil
  • 0:68 Practices for Wellbeing
  • 0:72 “Enlightenment is your greatest disappointment”
  • 0:74 Eros & Ethics
  • 0:77 Human as ethical actor, intimacy and obligation
  • 0:81 Circling, following “aliveness”, co-discovering moral landscape
  • 0:85 Path = compromising moral integrity increasingly intolerable
  • 0:88 Ethics in Community, MAPLE’s advantage
  • 0:90 Closing
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