Practicing Strategic Empathy and Navigating Competing Values

May 14, 2026 70 min listen

In a world experiencing a seismic shift in the values and principles that guide geopolitics, how can we practice strategic empathy without succumbing to moral relativism?

Brian Wong, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Hong Kong, joins the Values & Interests podcast to discuss how we can challenge our own moral and political beliefs, the future of global justice, and the technological forces disrupting our very conception of what it means to be human.

Professor Wong's latest book is Moral Debt.

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