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Films

13 Conversations About One Thing

James Okapal has 13 open questions about happiness.

Movies and moral theorizing rarely mingle. When they do, relativism and free will are the popular topics. But there are many other ethical questions, concerning, for example, the nature of moral justification, or the meaning of value-terms such as ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Perhaps it’s obvious to you why these topics rarely reach the big screen. However, Jill Sprecher’s 2001 film 13 Conversations About One Thing does an excellent job at depicting G.

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