Pratap Bhanu Mehta on The Theory of Moral Sentiments
Ideas of India
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Is Your Dissertation an Extension of the Scottish Enlightenment?
i see a lot of your work as an extension of the scottish enlightenment project. Is that? Or is that just, i'm making very clean straight lines that don't, don't quite belong? Yes andbin not. This is yes in the sense that i think it is an approach to social explanation and understanding the social world that i think i deeply admired. And probably parts of it become kind of second naturea aially,. especially also, the ironical elements of it. I mean, there is a kind of almost equanimous sort of dis smith. You have all o their social world, which actually allows them to see both sides. Good people do bad things.
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