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In this episode I read The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen and reflect on the more obvious moral and social ideas it includes. But I also take a much longer look at the two characters in the story who do wicked things and ponder the reasons and whether it's possible that neither is evil in the way we (at least as I've encountered it) consider people to be evil. This episode is much longer the first largely because the story is much longer, but also because the idea I'm thinking about is much more nuanced.
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This episode is about the light and dark sides of our nature and the pursuit of a virtuous life. The light vs dark nature is illustrated by The Shadow by Hans Christian Andersen and I talk about it in the context of the stoic ideas of pursuing a virtuous life.
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00:00 Intro
00:41 The Shad…
A short story by Hans Christian Andersen about the evolution of a story in the telling.
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00:00 Intro
02:47 There Is No Doubt About It by Hans Christian Andersen
07:47 Commentary
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