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Jan 2021
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PREMIUM-Ep. 260: Locke on Moral Psycholo...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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One last take on John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), covering Book II, ch. 21 and 28.

What makes a moral claim true? Do we have free will? What makes us choose the good, or not? In this coda to our long treatment of Locke's opus, we bring together all he has to say about morality, which is strangely modern yet also just strange.

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