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Which dinner question at seventeen would decide your whole life?
A seventeen-year-old girl attends a family dinner in New Zealand, where a single conversation sets her on a path to reshape modern virtue ethics. What would you do if a casual question changed your life?
Which dinner question at seventeen would decide your whole life?
This episode explores the pivotal, unrecorded dinner conversation that led Rosalind Hursthouse to pursue philosophy, tracing her journey from Wellington to becoming the first woman to teach at an all-male Oxford college. It asks how a single, unremembered moment can define a life's work.
Person: Rosalind Hursthouse
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