#129 - What Good are the Humanities? Talbot Brewer

Come join my Patreon! https://patreon.com/HemlockPatreon Philosophy could be characterized with only a bit of irony as what is left if you begin with the sum total of human thought and subtract those areas in which clear progress has been made.-Talbot Brewer, The Retrieval of Ethics, 2009 -//- Original YouTube: https://youtu.be/geBkIGDEU-k  Published February 2017 by the University of Chicago https://www.youtube.com/@UChicago 

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