#4 – Joshua Greene (Pt. 2): Moral Tribes and bridging the gap between ”us” and ”them”

In this episode of the Giving What We Can podcast, we are joined again by renowned psychologist, Joshua Greene, for part two of our interview, where we explore his book Moral Tribes.

The full transcript and links are available at our blog:
https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/post/2021/09/podcast-josua-greene/ 

Chapters:

00:00 – Introduction
00:49 – The question the book Moral Tribes is asking
06:57 – Why are we moral beings?
11:06 – How big can our moral tribes be?
12:37 – Responses to Moral Tribes
16:53 – Relationship between utilitarianism and effective altruism
19:08 – Beating your personal best
22:27 – How “trolley problems” accidentally took off
25:47 – Different versions of trolley dilemmas
31:08 – Closing thoughts