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"Nuance: Virtue or Vice?" - OaD Ep. 171

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The Integrity of the True and the Good

There's usually some sort of backdrop of preference satisfaction theory or maybe at the contract, social contractarianism at the root of it. And that's really a deflationary notion of ethics so much so that I'm not sure it's even properly called ethics. It's more just like practical reasoning, simplicity of which ethics is a species and that species is removed from these kinds of theories. So they end up having this narrow integration of the true and the good in that, yeah, the point of things is to get towards the good. The certain forms of thought are already entrapped by the doing, you know, this constant needing to do, do,do, do, which is

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