Greg Salmieri
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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Elucidations · Episode 73: Greg Salmieri discusses Ayn Rand's moral philosophy · 15 Jul 2015
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Well, the essential thing that a human being needs to do to survive, she thinks, and again, we could talk at some length about why she thinks this is to use his mind to identify and produce values, to create new values, to do something, the kind of activity that farming is an example of, or building a factory, or designing a new product, or just intelligently working with.
in the confines of a farm or a factory.
To do something like that where you're adding value to the world.
Now, if you think that way and you think that that's what's in your interest, then first of all, you're not going to think of other people as prey for you.
It's not what's in your interest isn't a life of taking their stuff, which is what I think really leads to the apocalypse.
It's a life of making stuff.
But then what about helping other people?
Well, if you think of what a human life is, what you're after and what they're after, as a life of creating value.
And so far I've been talking about material values like, you know, products of food and wealth and shelter, but this applies across the board to all kinds of values for her, including artistic values, cultural values, and the kinds of values of character that we get so much pleasure at from one another in the confines of friendships and romantic relationships.
Philosophy podcasts, yes.
When the other people are behaving well, you see the other people as a tremendous source of value.
And this applies to particular other people who have done something good, but also applies in a more general way to people in general, as each a tremendous source of something great.
a great potential.
And just in light of that, if you see someone suffering, someone harmed, someone hurt, you're going to be motivated to want to help them.
And to see that as part of what's good for you, helping them.
Now it'll be part of what's good for you and you're going to have to place it in the context of your other value.
So if some guy's a little bit hungry and you're not going to turn your whole life on and to be his worker to give him food.
But uh even if it's through no fault of his own.
But where we're talking about the kinds of cases like the girl on the bicycle example, where there's someone in a lot of distress and through a very trivial action you could help them out a lot.
What kind of a person, what kind of a view of other people would you have to have to be indifferent to and not want to help another person?
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