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The Examined Life

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Effect of Injunctions on Morality

For the ancient greeks, ethics was about how do we live? And you approached that question from the point of view as w how does life go best for us. When christian ethics came in, it replaced that kind of inquiring and sort of positive view of ethics with a set of injunctions which wee no longer we no longer we have to inquire as to about how to live.

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