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Are You an Admirable Person?
i think maybe it's partly because in our fractured society, we can't agree on what constitutes a reasonable characterological goal. So we just throw up our hands and don't educate our kids to any degree at all about what an admirable person is like. And if there are enough people who are admirable, then things work. If there aren't, then things things are terrible. You get wiped out. i've known for a long time that the moral presuppositions of a culture are instantiated in its stories. But more importantly, maybe we shouldn't toss them away without knowing what they mean. We'll pay for it individually,. Because if you're not firm in your convictions, then