Greg Salmieri
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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something that damn it I have to do, but it's conflicting with uh what would be best for me.
You you lose a lot of the conflict in life once you recognize that
The things that are good for you to do.
That it's right for you to do aren't interjects.
Coming from somewhere else that are harming you.
but are actually best for you.
The a major source of moral conflict and motivation just disappears if it's true that what's right and what's best for you coincide.
Yes, but that's not sort of sufficient for egoism.
I think you can hold that and still not
Quite be an egoist, so if you
You think about sort of the tradition of Greek ethics, Eudaimism as held by Aristotle and Plato and the Stoics.
All of those thinkers I think would agree that what's right for you to do and what's best for you coincide.
And I think it's due to their influence in fact that
theories of well being has started to be a a topic in philosophy again and seen as respectable.
I mean
due to their distal influence.
More approximately there are people like Ans Goman Foote and Kraut and um Annis and so forth reviving interest in these people.
Um and now there's a whole field of study of well being.
But
I don't think it's clear that all of those philosophers are egoists.
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