
Episode 102: Emerson on Wisdom and Individuality
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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There's No Good in Evil
There's no virtue which is final, right? So the self overcoming, i mean that you could take that as well. You know, our ethics over time is progressive. And so what we consider virtuous in the past gets overcome by a more sophisticated view. In that sense, all virtues are only initial. That they only await are as individuals or as society, coming to a higher point of view of truth to cast them away. But lest i should mislead any when i have my head and obey my whims, let me remind the reader that i am only an experimenter. Do not set the least value on what I do or the least discredit on what i do.
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