The Language of Social Justice - Defend and Confirm Podcast
Social Justice
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17m
In this episode, we continue to build the foundation for discussing social justice. We talk about the way the English language changes over time, how people intuit the meanings of important terms like “justice", and discuss the importance of looking for the Aristotelian mean during these types of controversies.
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