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The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)
The Gray Area with Sean Illing
How to Be Good in the Aristotelian Sense
CNN's John Sutter asks how much is good relying on the effect a person has on the world and how much relies on their motivations. "What does good mean here? Consequentialist or deontological?" He says one Dartmouth grad said her goal was to just achieve virtue in the Aristotelian sense. But what if at her four years of Dartmouth, she slighted her friends on occasion and she may be cut corners on some papers,. Sutter: So yeah, so Aristotle's advice is good advice. It's that if you're going to become somebody who now cares about taking your friend to the airport, it's not clear to me that wanting to be good,
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