The Importance of Close Personal Relationships in Politics

It's interesting one of the things that we've talked about in the center is there's this tradition this Asian tradition with philosophers like like Menji where the idea is supposed to be well politics should really start in those close personal relationships. The Enlightenment did for example was to take the contractual relationships and find a kind of software in markets and democracies for scaling that up to the scale of a country or the scale of the planet or the world. But it left the care relationships or leaves the care relationships just at the level of okay that's something that's private and personal and not part of the broader ethical world, he says.

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