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The Essay - Enlightenment Voices - Smith/Hume - Part 1

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Series exploring major figures in the Scottish Enlightenment. Prof Alexander Brodie explores Smith's observations on morality and human behaviour. Smith believed that morality is, or should be, a lifelong project that leaves no space for complacency about our moral status. Whatever we have achieved already, we could still make progress and we could still fall.