Yeah, these philosophy professors will give it some thought
On their weekly Bay Area radio show, Ken Taylor and John Perry go deep with their listeners. Among the duo's musings: 'If Truth is so valuable, why is there so much B.S.?'
By Maria L. La Ganga
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 5, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Isabella from Berkeley wanted to talk about how everyone -- even vegans -- is complicit in the evils of "factory farming, billions of animals living lives of misery."
Philip from San Francisco called in to chat about whether art is even possible without evil, musing aloud on the early-morning airwaves that "if you don't have evil, Satan with a big tail, you don't have irony."
And Charles e-mailed from his Western Addition apartment that "as someone trained in clinical psychology, I see evil as psychopathology. . . . Why couldn't this explain evil in a way we can more readily understand?"
It was just another Sunday morning for Ken Taylor and John Perry, who dissect life's big mysteries on "Philosophy Talk," believed to be America's only live weekly call-in radio show dedicated to the philosophical.
In this celebrity-soaked era, when Americans seem to spend more time pondering whether Britney Spears' underwear exists than whether God does, these two Stanford philosophy professors take on everything from the weighty to the winsome.
On this June morning in the little broadcast booth at KALW-FM (91.7), "Philosophy Talk" tackled the problem of evil -- or, as Perry put it, quoting Epicurus: "If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?"
(Continued here.)
By Maria L. La Ganga
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
July 5, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — Isabella from Berkeley wanted to talk about how everyone -- even vegans -- is complicit in the evils of "factory farming, billions of animals living lives of misery."
Philip from San Francisco called in to chat about whether art is even possible without evil, musing aloud on the early-morning airwaves that "if you don't have evil, Satan with a big tail, you don't have irony."
And Charles e-mailed from his Western Addition apartment that "as someone trained in clinical psychology, I see evil as psychopathology. . . . Why couldn't this explain evil in a way we can more readily understand?"
It was just another Sunday morning for Ken Taylor and John Perry, who dissect life's big mysteries on "Philosophy Talk," believed to be America's only live weekly call-in radio show dedicated to the philosophical.
In this celebrity-soaked era, when Americans seem to spend more time pondering whether Britney Spears' underwear exists than whether God does, these two Stanford philosophy professors take on everything from the weighty to the winsome.
On this June morning in the little broadcast booth at KALW-FM (91.7), "Philosophy Talk" tackled the problem of evil -- or, as Perry put it, quoting Epicurus: "If God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?"
(Continued here.)
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