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Feb 2019
20m 44s

Philip Pettit on the Birth of Ethics

EDMONDS AND WARBURTON
About this episode

Where did ethics come from? Philip Pettit tells an 'as if' story about the birth of ethics that is designed to illuminate what ethics is and why it evolved on this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

We are grateful for support from the Marc Sanders Foundation and from Patreon donors for this episode. 

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