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“…ethics is a tradition. People sometimes get annoyed at the fact that they have to read Plato, Aristotle or some other old and very Western source. But this is the price one pays for entering a tradition, as any student of religion, literature, architecture, or art can tell you. But, and this is important, that is the academic or formal side of ethics. One can understand issues (not all of them) without knowing the canon.”