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    • John Rawls on Just War, March 2016
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    • Aristotle on the Virtue of Temperance
    • Aristotle, Politics, Book II, Parts 1-4
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Excerpts from Philosophy Texts

The selections that appear under this heading are readings from philosophy source material that are closely related to material from The Game of Philosophy.

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