THE DOCTOR IS IN DA HOUSE

Session 7, at 2:15’20”
ANDREW HERSCHER: This is what I think: I find that it’s much easier to talk about ethics than politics in school. And I think that provokes a problem. If ethics is about articulating perhaps non-negotiable principles for thoughts and for action, for ways to be an architect, and if politics is about negotiation, negotiation with others, negotiation with difference, then, politics without ethics is war, and ethics without politics is theology. They’re both inadequate. They’re both unsatisfactory. If that’s true, then what it means is: we need to figure out how to talk about the intersection of politics and ethics, or in other words, how to negotiate the non-negotiables. And that’s an extraordinarily difficult, but I think crucial problem.