Hello and welcome back to Socrates at the Bus Stop, I am Theo Lachance. This week's question did not come from me. It came from a listener in Dakar, who wrote something I have read about ten times. She sends money home every month to parents who were, in her words, not kind. And she asks: do I have to? Does philosophy say I owe them? That is a question people have argued about for 2,500 years, and the answers are not comfortable. We will hear from Confucius, who thought this duty was the root of every other virtue. From Aristotle, who was not so sure. And from a philosopher called Jane English, who argued that grown children owe their parents nothing at all, at least not as a debt. Stay with me. You are listening on Witspeak Podcasts.