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Aug 2020
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#214 - Cosmic Skeptic - How Do We Define...

Chris Williamson
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Alex O'Connor is a philosopher & YouTuber.

Get ready for a mental workout today as Alex poses some of the most famous and most difficult questions in ethics.

What does it mean to say that something is good? Why SHOULD you do one thing instead of another thing? Why should we care about wellbeing? What is the definition of suffering? On whose authority is anything good or bad?

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