Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")
Very Bad Wizards
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Is the Gods Capricious?
i want to think, you know, when you read some of the that greek and norse mythology, and the gods act with this very weird, almost, like, arbitrary morality. And just imagininga a society, this is where i think that imaginative kind of enterprise that hume was talking about really helps. It's like, they live in a world where it seems like the gods are capricious, often cruel and often unjust. But at the same time, there's something pretty fascinating about some ofyows, some of those texts too.
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