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Kingdom Roots

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The Complexity of Character and Ethics in Philosophy

Scott: I've accidentally been reading a lot of philosophers on character. Character is incredibly complex and sometimes when we move to habit and have it acquiring traits through habituation that's because it's the simplest way to try to talk about it but I think even Aristotle is far more complex than that, he says. Scott: Part of what's been I've been trying to work out is that character and ethics at least in philosophy are not synonymous. They get thrown around in theology as though they are so I'm trying to dive my way through to try to scalpel some of these things apart which makes it feel like walking in snow or darkness big snowstorm you just can't see in front of

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