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Hi I'm Daniel, host of this week's Intelligence Square podcast.

Before you will start rushing into complain, Farra not in today it's just me and on the show this week we have David Wooten the historian and Charles Fraser the Reverend and journalist on power, Pleasure and Profit, which is the title of David Wooten's new book.

The podcast is about the philosophical roots of the pursuit of power, pleasure and profit in our society and where that comes from in the works of

Enlightenment philosophers. We hope you enjoy listening to this week's podcast.

Hello I'm Giles Fraser. Welcome to this week's Intelligence Square podcast. You can sign up for regular

updates about podcasts and other events at Intelligentsquare.com. And I'm here with David Wooten and so you're well known for writing about the

history of science written about Galileo you've written about doctors and various other things, and last year, end of last

year, published this, I have to say, very beautiful looking book power pleasure and profit insatiable

appetites from Machiavelli to Madison and I read this as a sort of, this was a great eye-opener to me, so I'm really, really looking forward

to talking to you about it, because it has this sort of, this way in which you describe this bridge that happened around the time of the Enlightenment

in which morality changes from the sort of, you know, I guess the courtly morality or the morality of knights and

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