Greg Salmieri

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

So I think of a life as a kind of constellation of activities that produce, create and sustain the kinds of values that are needed for that constellation to continue over a human lifespan.

And I think one's own well being is the set of activities and values of that sort that they've created for themselves.

And we can then say things about what it will necessarily include.

I've said two of them reason and being productive.

I think there are others that it will also include.

We mentioned earlier human relationships and maintaining good relationships, I think is a part of it.

But it's that created set of values that has the characteristic of hanging together into a whole and being self-sustaining, is I think someone's life, and then that is

And when we're asking if an action is egoistic, it's does it contribute to that?

I mean, when you're talking about examples of individual people, you're

there'll always be controversies 'cause we don't know everything about them and most people's lives have some exceptions to them.

But I'll tell you about some people who I really admire who I think um

to a very significant extent and on a grand scale live this kind of life.

Um I think Steve Jobs is a kind of obvious example.

This is someone who um

was sort of brilliant, created tremendous value on a grand scale, and I think really loved what he was doing, and you can see that he loved it.

Now in the human relationships part of his life I think there were more difficulties, but even at that I mean there are people who really cared about him and he really cared about

I think uh similarly someone who I've been reading a bit about recently who I similarly admire is Jeff Bezos.

So these are two people in the same field.

But I think you can find people, artists, uh great achievers in many fields who really

who created great things with their lives.

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