Greg Salmieri
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1,054 appearances
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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then I think you can, although I don't think it's ideal, use the term altruism to mean this sense that there's
Morality is about serving something other than or higher than the self.
Or put another way, morality is about self sacrifice or being willing to self sacrifice.
And Rand, who I'm a scholar of and have learned a lot from
she concludes that sort of at its deepest essence, this is what altruism as widely understood and as held as a cultural ideal is about.
It's about, she calls it the morality of sacrifice.
And whether or not we're going to use altruism as a name for that, I think that is something that is common.
I think if you look at moral platitudes, particularly the kinds that politicians say when they're trying not to say anything controversial, um, you often find them saying things like, you know, Michelle Obama saying service is the price we pay the rent we pay for a living.
Again, possibly not an exact quote.
Carrie once said, uh
You know, whatever else divides us, the one thing that should unite us is the idea that the measure of our character is how much we're willing to give of ourselves for others.
John Kerry, yeah.
And uh lots of you know presidential candidates in America, and other people talk about serving something higher than yourself, as that's what's good.
So they don't specify what it is so much as it's that it's something higher than yourself.
And I think this idea we do find a lot in theoretical aspects.
I think particularly since Kant, so before we're talking about compt with a C, this is Kant, Immanuel Kant, the uh eighteenth century German philosopher as a
To Auguste Comte, the 19th-century French philosopher we're just talking about.
So Kant draws this real distinction between acting from prudence, which is rational but self-interested, right, and acting on motives of duty or morality.
And
in effect, the whole way that Kant draws out the content of what this duty is, is predicated on this distinction, that it's not based on inclination, which is what prudence is driven by.
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