Fires of Progress | Steven Pinker, Tariq Ali, Elif Sarican

Philosophy For Our Times

English - January 22, 2019 10:15 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MB - ★★★★ - 260 ratings
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Most think that social progress should be driven by ideas and persuasion not force. Yet from the French and Russian Revolutions to the Suffragettes, violent action has been instrumental to generating change. Is violence ever justified as a political strategy? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, Enlightenment Now author Steven Pinker, filmmaker and author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms Tariq Ali and Kurdish Women's Movement activist Elif Sarican grapple with the forces of history.

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