
Episode 16: Amartya Sen discusses justice
Elucidations
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The Importance of Practical Reason in the United States
I don't think and some people would say look we have to tolerate a lot of inequality in America because that's what you need for liberty. Another person might say look liberty may be important but not that important. We need much greater economic equality even if it means that liberty is somewhat compromise. Now there could be strong argument one direction or the other in that but it doesn't follow at all that you can't agree on what should be done in the United States right now, right today without actually going into the other issue. The theory of practice is not a theory of an ideal world. For practice and practical reason, the whole name of philosophy often applied kind of political philosophy, moral philosophy
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