Greg Salmieri
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first heard Aug 2013
last heard Jan 2021
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So these are some of the traditional theories on it.
My own view on it was
is sort of based on my understanding of Ayn Rand's view and
A little bit different from all of those.
We'll talk more about the details later, but has elements of a few of them.
Yeah, well there's there are two questions.
Can it ever be and can it always be?
And I think most moral philosophers would regard what you said we teach our kids, you know, never be selfish, never do things just for yourself and so forth, as a a straw man of what either contemporary mores are or what uh moral philosophers say.
I do think it is a straw man of what moral philosophers say.
That if you look at theories of ethics, you will find
I think it's much less of a straw man of how we actually teach kids.
That was selfish, don't do this for yourself.
You're only thinking of yourself as, you know, almost always a pejorative.
But
I think, you know, if we just think about moral common sense and and the reason why most moral philosophers would say it's a straw man to say that any ethical theory says you should never do anything for yourself, is there are lots of things that we admire that people do uh for themselves.
They are ambitious, they support themselves.
If someone's, you know, in an abusive relationship and leaves the relationship, we think, you know, that's good.
She's you know, or he stood up for himself or herself.
Yeah, and not only in feminism
But, you know, I'm uh my my wife's pregnant and we're reading a lot of parenting books and I guess this connects to feminism because most primary caretakers are women.
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