Ethics and Values / Unit 7 Ethics 306 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Good Life and the Moral Life
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The idea
The good-life question — what benefits the one living it — and the moral-life question — what each person owes others — are distinct questions that meet but never merge.
In practice
A ruthless tycoon may prosper; a whistleblower may pay dearly. Naming who lived well and who lived rightly takes both vocabularies.
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