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Ep. 1: James Otteson Ph.D: Aristotle and the Good Life

The Moral Imagination

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What Are the Kinds of Governments That We Need?

What we need is a government that's going to protect property rights, which include the individual persons. And this also then very naturally leads into the idea that what we need is economic freedom. We need to be able to partner, exchange, trade, associate with other people in a mutually voluntary way that can be mutually beneficial. So it needs to be a wide range of a wide scope of human freedom and a protection against other people invading or inserting themselves into relationships others generate.

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