Matt McCusker

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721 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 10 Jul

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Duncan Trussell Family Hour · 756: Matt McCusker · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

It wasn't like necessarily like we have rule-following morality.

So there was like the virtues, which is like how do you live the best human life possible, and how can that way that you live make life better for as many people as possible if they do the same, if they have virtues.

If you don't have virtues, your life is going to collapse.

And then the church kind of came through, and I think Thomas Aquinas was the one who was like, no, no, this stuff is cool.

Stop trying to rail against it.

But more or less what happened was virtues got collapsed into being virtuous, which just meant you're a rule follower.

And then that's when he lived under the oppressive, like medieval times, modern, you know, 1950s.

You were like a virtuous man if you just followed rules and that was that.

And if you suffered, like, so be it.

It's just you're just following...

But I think Nietzsche was like, you just have to make up your own things and go off.

And the guy at McIntyre was like, no, you have to return to the Aristotelian idea of virtues and pursue and practice things that, when done, give you a good inherent in itself, not necessarily a marketing.

And again, it's one of those things where I can't hardly summarize it.

Sounds good.

I got you.

It's amazing, but then it's like you had all these rule followers, and then it became virtuous or desirable to now just go the postmodern thing where like break all of these fucking rules, and then you'll be, and they're still miserable too.

And his book's basically like you have to get back to being a community-minded individual who's connected to a deep tradition at some point, which you have to learn about in order to critique rather than burning it down and becoming like,

just a lost person adrift in like complete personal subjectivity and yeah it's pretty fucking sick dude it's it's what i think is it's amazing that's amazing it's awesome yeah you sort of like um oh god it's so fucked up man you ever see like those hermit crabs who uh

And he gets in, he calls it emotivism, where it's like morality now is just like people just take from scraps of like morally coded language to just get their way.

So there's making emotionally based arguments and being like, you're a fucking piece of shit if you don't agree with how I feel emotionally about this subject.

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