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	Podcast:		Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics
	Episode:		Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony: St Cross Special Ethics Seminar
	Category:		Technology
	Duration:		01:01:06
	Publish Date:		2011-01-24 09:55:39
	Description:		Dr Adrian Walsh delivers a St Cross College Lecture entitled Good Intentions and Political Life: Against Virtue Parsimony. It is a commonplace that the good life and the good society are intimately interconnected. In order to maximize our chances of living well, we require a well-ordered polity; and this is one of the fundamental challenges of politics. Typically we regard a good society as, amongst other things, a society that has well designed institutions. One crucial aspect of the 'design challenge' concerns itself with the relationship between individual virtue and such political institutions. Is it is in general a good idea to prefer those institutions that demand from participating individuals a virtue-rich input? [...]
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