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Jul 7
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Ep. 370: Christine Korsgaard on the Hist...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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We dive further into the text of lectures 1 and 2 of The Sources of Normativity (1996).

We give Korsgaard's account of the idea of reflective endorsement through Hume and Bernard Williams to get to her own view. When you come to know the origins of your moral sentiments, do you still stand behind them?

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