Purification and the Moral Life: Chastening Speech

The Minefield
14/04/2022 54 min
Purification and the Moral Life: Chastening Speech

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Of all the ways we interact with the world and with the moral reality of other persons, none is as fundamental as speech. In a time when we are saturated with words, what might it mean to purify our language?

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