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Ep. 1: James Otteson Ph.D: Aristotle and the Good Life

The Moral Imagination

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments

In graduate school, I read this book by Adam Smith called The Theory of Moral Sentiments. That suggested to me that there was a kind of marriage between empirical and factual study of the world. And looking for a union of those two things has been what's driven almost all of my work throughout my career.

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