Greg Salmieri

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Elucidations · Episode 131: Greg Salmieri discusses egoism and altruism · 3 Jan 2021 podcast

So we can think about what a human life is.

And I think for an individual person.

His well being is his life.

But for it to be a life at all, for it to sustain him existentially, to keep him alive, and to be sustaining spiritually, for it to work, for it to hang together, it's gonna have to be a specific sort of life.

So we can think about how is it that human beings live?

Well, we're rational creatures.

We live by using our minds.

And in particular, we live by producing values, by creating things.

that help to sustain us.

So I think the two kinds of fundamentals in a human life, there are lots of other values that help to make it up, but the two fundamentals are reason and production.

You're thinking and you're creating things.

And you're creating the kinds of things that in all the multifarious ways they do, or in one of the multifarious ways in which things do, help to keep human beings alive.

either by, you know, you're farming and you're growing food or you're making technology, or you're doing something that serves a spiritual need that keeps us able to function and be motivated, like making art or whatever it might be.

So I think a human life is a life that is

centered around these kinds of activities.

And there are a lot more than these, but these are the two central ones, right?

And then there are millions of, you know, indefinitely many lives that have these features.

uh they're rational and they're productive, and there are a whole lot of other virtues that go along I think are required by this, but just to summarize, rational, productive, there are a lot of other virtues that these require and entail.

But no matter how long you make the list of virtues, uh there are gonna be, you know, infinitely many conceivable lives that have these.

And your own life is gonna be the one of those that you've picked and created for yourself.

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