Greg Salmieri
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1,054 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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loved what they were doing and saw them as like achieving what they wanted out of life.
But you know, for any moral theory the kinds of obvious examples are gonna be people who did things out of the ordinary, uh who did things on a grand scale which require not just being moral, and I think these people who I mentioned are in the kind of main thrust of their lives moral on a grand scale.
But it also is gonna require for them to be, you know, these kind of grand scale exemplars, them being particularly talented and positioned in the world such that they could have grand effects.
I think there are plenty of examples of people who, you know, wouldn't be famous, who are nonetheless they love what they're doing with their lives, they're thoughtful about how the different parts of their lives fit together.
they are deeply and passionately committed to their values and they
understand the need to act on some principles to achieve those values over time.
They've internalized principles like honesty, rationality, integrity as you know, they're just a natural way for them to act, and they see them as good for themselves.
Whether they would identify that, you know, as a moral philosopher might,
I don't know, but in the moment they're not uh
they see cheating or compromising their product
as uh you know something that would be anathema to them, anathema to who they are and what they want to be and what they want their life to be like.
If you think about, you know, what Steve Jobs would feel like about the idea of adding a bunch of, you know, bloatware to an iPhone or something, uh, and the kind of visceral horror you imagine him having at that.
And I think that's a really moral reaction.
Uh there are a lot of people who have the equivalent of that
for the things in their own work and their own lives.
And
It's the kind of people who really love their children, for example, and who have the kind of attitudes towards themselves that they have towards their children and that a good parent would have towards them.
The other thing that stands out about all these people who I'm giving exemplars, both the famous types of people and the, you know, people you meet every day who are like this, some of them profoundly so, some of them to a lesser extent, is they're people who are really taking responsibility for their own lives and their own happiness.
They're seeing it as uh
Something they have to achieve is
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