What Makes Us Good
The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 22, 2011
Mark Matousek explains why he believes that, contrary to what we've been taught in our reason-obsessed culture, emotions are the foundation of ethical life, and that without emotions, human beings cannot be empathic, moral, or good. In Ethical Wisdom: What Makes Us Good, Matousek examines morality from a scientific, sociological, and anthropological standpoint.
At 19:50 you can hear Leonard's reaction to the earthquake!
