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Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday, and I hope you love the

show.

Today I want to talk about morality and autonomy.

I guess more specifically, what goes into these judgments that we make about whether a particular

action or behavior is right or wrong.

I'm not talking about whether you actually follow through and do the right thing.

That's a completely different story.

When Kant talks about how as humans, we find ourselves in a constant struggle between virtue

and happiness and that oftentimes doing what the right thing is in a given situation may

seem counterintuitive to what is going to make us happy in a given situation.

And the true highest level of existence is not only being a virtuous person, but having

enough mastery over that virtuous condition where you find happiness there as well.

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