Hey Professor Cushing, I know the comment section is a little thin but keep up the good work! As an undergraduate it's really cool to get to see these interviews with all of my intellectual role models.
“unless we’re raising young children...” 59:00 and that’s the crux of it...to me, morality implies normativity and deviating from that negates the definition. Morality doesn’t seem to object to other values, but it is the standard by which we measure ‘worthiness’. It’s amazing that Roger Federer has won so many titles, but it’s not obvious that his life would mean less or be less good had he chosen to pursue another activity with such earnestness, despite his fame and fortune being greatly diminished. The quality of life IS the degree to which moral possibilities have been actualized. If we object to that, we object to moral worthiness totally. Morality only exists for its own sake and for the sake of its own scrutiny.
Hey Professor Cushing, I know the comment section is a little thin but keep up the good work! As an undergraduate it's really cool to get to see these interviews with all of my intellectual role models.
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“unless we’re raising young children...” 59:00
and that’s the crux of it...to me, morality implies normativity and deviating from that negates the definition. Morality doesn’t seem to object to other values, but it is the standard by which we measure ‘worthiness’.
It’s amazing that Roger Federer has won so many titles, but it’s not obvious that his life would mean less or be less good had he chosen to pursue another activity with such earnestness, despite his fame and fortune being greatly diminished. The quality of life IS the degree to which moral possibilities have been actualized. If we object to that, we object to moral worthiness totally. Morality only exists for its own sake and for the sake of its own scrutiny.