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You're listening to the Parsley Examined Life, a podcast by some guys who at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 390 is something like, how can one be moral in a decadent society?

We read Denny Dieterow's dialogue, Ramo's nephew, written in the 1760s, but unpublished until after

his death.

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This is Mark Linsett Meyer in Madison, Wisconsin, who has composed songs that no one plays,

but which may be the only works of today, posterity will like.

This is Wes Allwin, hoping to have the last laugh in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey gulping down the flattering lie and sipping the bitter truth in Madison, Wisconsin.

Do you think that he who laughs laugh? Like that's from this? Or was that a really old,

he who laughs, last, last best? What is the? I think it is from this.

So Diderot has long been on our pile of, you know, famous philosophers that we would have

liked to cover and

people periodically request. We had not gotten around to it. And this Ramo's nephew was referred

to quite a lot, you know, maybe provided the underlying concrete narrative in the last

chunk of Hegel's phenomenology that we just read.

So hopefully we can elucidate a little more of that,

but mostly it's a self-contained thing.

It just even though it was, again, right in the 1760s,

but unpublished, right?

He was known for doing the encyclopedia,

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