Greg Salmieri
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1,054 appearances
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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And they don't take the fact it's up to them to achieve it as like um a drag, something they you know, damn it, I wish life could just be easy and just happened, but they see it as something that they want to do.
It's important and it matters to them that their lives are achievements.
Well, one example that occurs to me not to be too controversial is Jesus.
This is someone who what did he do with his life?
Right?
He went around preaching to take no thought for the morrow.
You don't have any responsibility for really what happens to you.
It's not the one who reaps and sows that creates the harvest, but God.
So it's a kind of anti-responsibility, anti-causal perspective on the world, very different from the achieving your own happiness view that I was talking about before.
And the idea that there's some moral order, whether you call it God.
to reference the Kantian term, that you're beholden to, that your being beholden to it isn't about causes and effects in the world.
It's not about achieving anything.
Ah there's no intelligible
to you in terms of your life on earth, meaning or purpose to it.
And yet you ought to do it and sacrifice your happiness to it.
And there are a lot of varieties of it.
I referenced Jesus and Kant both in different ways in talking about this.
Um you can think about
People like Mother Teresa, who is or at least more so in the eighties than now, was a hero to many people, not because of any great work they thought she accomplished or anything that they thought she wanted out of life, but because she was seen as someone, and I think she was legitimately someone, who gave up a lot of comfort, who gave up what would have been better for herself
Not even to actually accomplish anything for the poorest of the poor, but just to um be around them and tell them how good suffering was.
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