Evil and Vice in Entertainment | Dr. John Haldane

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🗓️ 7 March 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dr. John Haldane examines the themes of evil and vice as portrayed in film and entertainment, utilizing philosophical concepts and specific examples like The Exorcist and Apocalypse Now, to analyze the ethical dimensions of these representations.

This lecture was given on November 28th, 2024, at University of Edinburgh.

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About the Speaker:

John Haldane is the Newton Rayzor Sr Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, Texas, and Professor of Moral Philosophy, and Senior Fellow of the Centre for Ethics and Public Affairs, at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He is also Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Chair of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, London. As well as his many philosophical writings, he has contributed to the Times and the Guardian, and broadcast often with the BBC UK and World, and ABC Australia. In 2016 he was named by Best Schools one of the ‘50 Most Influential Living Philosophers’.

Keywords: Apocalypse Now, Aristotelian Ethics, Courage, Evil, Exorcist, Film, Heart of Darkness, Hollywood, Justice, Prudence, Virtue And Vice

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Timistic Institute podcast.
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0:25.0	This isn't really going to be a lecture so much as a talk.
0:27.7	I mean, that's to say it has a structure,
0:30.0	and you've got a handout that I will follow through.
0:32.4	But it's an enormous subject.
0:34.8	I mean, it could be, let's see,
0:36.6	some years ago I gave the Gifford lectures, could be the series of lectures,
0:38.3	which are, you know, a series of lectures. Well, this could be probably two series of
0:42.3	Gifford lectures. It's just such a huge topic. So I'm really going to be touching on some things.
0:47.3	But I think it might be useful, or I thought it would be useful, along the way to talk about
0:51.3	particular films especially. I was at one point going to talk about television series.
0:58.0	One of the difficulties in talking about films and television series is some of them are
1:04.0	ephemeral.
1:05.0	I mean, they come and they go and then they're sort of forgotten and so on, but they also tend
1:08.0	to be generational.
1:09.0	I mean, there are some things that are very long-lasting television series,
1:12.7	but many are very short-lived, particularly as television series are increasingly made by independent production companies,
1:19.3	and some of them don't go via terrestrial television and things of that sort.
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