Hey, this is the Partslee Exam in Life preview to episode 260, where we wrap up our

treatment of John Locke's and essay concerning human understanding.

After episode 259, we still have a few more sections and issues from Book 2 that we wanted

to talk about, all of which had something to do with ethics.

So here you get to hear about the first third of the discussion.

If you want to hear the whole thing, go to Partslee Exam in Life.com slash support.

This is in the context of relations.

So it's not just that an action is good or bad.

He's actually giving kind of a moral semantics here.

Tell us about moral semantics.

I didn't get a chance to listen to your guys previous discussion.

So you'll have to loop me in on the thread or I'll just have to pick it up as we go along.

I think it stands on its own enough.

I think it's just that Locke is excited by the idea that when we think about morality,

we're thinking about a relation in particular, we're thinking about the agreement or disagreement

of some action with some particular rule or law.

I think he sees that as really significant and that's kind of the upshot of this or

that the starting point, let's say at this chapter.

So we spent a lot of time last time bringing our hands over what a relation is.

Is it a complex idea?

Is it a simple idea because it is just referring to the one element that is hooking up to

elements that are extrinsic to it, which I think is that you can have the idea that power

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