Moral Paradox with Saul Smilansky

by Will Wilkinson on September 14, 2008

On this week’s Free Will, I chat with Saul Smilansky about his new book Ten Moral Paradoxes. This is a really fun, stimulating read.

wph

I was thinking about this sort of moral paradox recently with the death of David Foster Wallace. The guy had an amazing talent and produced some outstanding work, but he apparently struggled all his life with depression and addiction, ending in his suicide at 46. If you could push a button and give that life to your kid, would you do it? Or would you push the button for the mediocre, reasonably happy life? I suspect i would choose mediocrity for my kid, yet I want to celebrate the life of Wallace, not the mediocrities of the world.

Will Wilkinson

Sorry. Link added to the post, and here:

http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/14400

rpjohnson2

OK, I am new to reading you, so this is a very uniformed question (but I did try to search for an answer). Is Free Will a pdocast and where can I listen to it or download it for later listening?

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