Greg Salmieri
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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I should say even the interpretation that they all think that what's right and what's best for you always coincide is controversial.
I think Kraut would disagree with that interpretation of them.
But many people interpret them that way and and I do.
But there's still the question of why do they coincide?
So to take a
If something's moral, if something's right to do, for reasons wholly other than the contribution it makes to your own self interest, to your own well being,
And then its being moral.
somehow leads to its being good for you.
and that's necessarily the case, then I I wouldn't call a view with that characteristic egoistic.
Like suppose there's a God who loves the moral.
And what makes it moral is something other than his loving it.
It's just some intrinsic feature of the action, like Kant thinks.
And then there's this God who will reward you if you do what's moral.
And God couldn't but do that because he's good.
Right?
But in order for you to count as moral, you have to be doing it for some reason other than the reward you're seeking for.
If you imagine a view with that kind of structure, I wouldn't call that view egoistic.
It's true that according to that view,
What's best for you and what's right coincide, and
Likewise I think the stoic view, which doesn't have a God giving rewards like that, but nevertheless has a structure where the account of what makes the action right or noble or virtuous doesn't really make any use of its benefiting you, and then it benefits you because what's good for you to do is to live up to nature and so forth.
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