Is Humanity Good? - The Philosophy of Star Trek #1

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The Star Trek Mythos is famous for its optimistic vision of the future. Whereas other works of science fiction show us marching towards a haunting dystopia or retaining many of our present problems for centuries to come, Star Trek stands out as a work of science fiction which definitively states: The future will be better and brighter than the present we live in and the human race will move beyond prejudice, poverty and war. However when we pose the question: Is humanity good? Or to be more specific, do people naturally default to their good side rather than their bad side, it’s interesting to note that Star Trek - despite its optimism - actually says the answer is, no.

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00:00 Squarespace Ad
00:49 Intro
01:30 Part 1 We're Not Going to Kill Today
13:25 Starfleet is Kinda Racist
20:11 Part 2 What a Piece of Work is Man
24:17 Klingons
27:01 Ferengi
28:01 Cardassians and Bajorans
31:56 Conclusion
32:46 Outro

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