Dr. Alison Gopnik: Why Care Is the Heart of Human Flourishing

“If you ask most people what's the most morally profound, significant, meaningful thing in your life, they'll say something about the way that they have been taking care of children or parents or friends, or people who are ill, or spouses. There's something very distinctive about it. It's just intrinsic to the human condition is that we're going to be babies, we're going to be ill, we're going to be old. That just comes with the territory of being human, and care seems to be a way of allowing us as a community, as a species to negotiate these kinds of transitions, to make the transitions work.” Dr. Alison Gopnik is a professor of philosophy and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading light on human caregiving research. Today, we explore her international research project designed to “think about the way that we care for other people.”

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