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- Oct 2020
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aeon.co aeon.co
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With the advance of modernity, the discourse shifted from the good life toward the pursuit of rational self-interest and usefulness – ideas that focused on immediate benefits and aimed to reduce complex ethical dilemmas to a single common denominator, rather than balance and moderation.
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the fascination with wisdom started to decline during the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment
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