30: Learning from History with Elizabeth Anderson

Authors

Eleanor Price, DePauw University
Christiane Wisehart, DePauw UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-30-2018

Abstract

Slavery is immoral. There’s no debate about it these days. But Americans didn’t always think that way. The morality of slavery was a hotly contested issue in the 18th and 19th centuries. So how did we get from the point where preachers praised slavery in their sermons to today when no one would ever publicly question the wrongness of slavery? Shifts in moral thinking like this come about during a process called moral inquiry. On today's show, we hear from the philosopher Elizabeth Anderson, who argues that the way people went about moral inquiry over two hundred years ago holds important lessons for how we ought to face questions of morality today.

Recommended Citation

Price, Eleanor and Wisehart, Christiane, "30: Learning from History with Elizabeth Anderson" (2018). Examining Ethics Podcast. 38, Scholarly and Creative Work from DePauw University.
https://scholarship.depauw.edu/examining-ethics/38