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Co-founder and editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine, author of The Duck That Won The Lottery

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Morality of the Tribe

Natalie Cargill, David Miller, Peter Tatchell. Julian Baggini hosts.

We think everyone should be treated equally. Yet we also think we are right to care most about our family, our friends and our lovers, and 82% of charitable donations in the UK are given to the causes closest to home. Should we just accept that our ethics are in practice tribal? Or is a universal concern for humanity the bedrock of a civilized culture? In which case, ...

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Biography

Julian Baggini is the co-founder and editor of The Philosophers’ Magazine, who also writes and broadcasts for The Guardian and the BBC. Baggini is the author of Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will, The Ego Trick: and The Duck That Won The Lottery.