Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
Very Bad Wizards
Is It Certain That a Serious Attention to the Sciences and Liberal Arts Softens and Humanizes the Tempest?
In an Aristotelian kind of way, if I expose myself to science and philosophy, I will end up cultivating virtues by my experience. He does make a funny statement here that I wanted to get your take on. It is certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper and cherishes. Yeah, in which true virtue and utter consists,. it rarely very rarely happens that a man of taste and learning is not at least an honest man. Whatever frailties may attend him.
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