How Philosophy Explains Our World, with Julian Baggini (Part Two)

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. In today's episode, we're returning for part two of our recent live event with philosopher and author Julian Bugini, recorded live at Conway Hall. Bugini joined broadcaster Rachelus Shah to explore what philosophy can teach us about politics, polarization, and how to think more clearly in a turbulent world.

If you haven't heard part one, we recommend jumping back an episode to catch up. But now let's return to the conversation live at Conway Hall in London. Okay, so that's what's happening across the Atlantic and I think there's a lot more to say about that, but we won't necessarily have time to do that this evening. But when we think about what's happening here in the UK, We're always, you mentioned Thatcher, people talk about Thatcherism, and I think you and I could many people in this room could probably articulate what that meant.

Even Blairism, people could probably argue about what that meant, and you could probably Do you think this current government has a political philosophy? Does Keir Starmer have a clear what you would call a political philosophy? This is a this is an interesting question, which um I I'm going to answer in a slightly roundabout way. First of all, I think I'm kind of not very keen on on isms in general, right? I think the thing about isms is that they're terms which sort of gather together a lot of often disparate things.

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