Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

Ep. 43 - Wisdom and Virtue

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Nov 27, 2019
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INSIGHT

Balancing Cognitive Styles

  • Active open-mindedness and mindfulness are opponent cognitive styles.
  • We need a higher-order way of coordinating them to optimize relevance realization, potentially leading to wisdom.
INSIGHT

Virtues and Optimization

  • Presenting virtues as a feature list implies they are logically independent and should be maximized.
  • This is inadequate, as maximizing one virtue (like honesty) can conflict with others (like kindness).
ANECDOTE

Bridesmaid Dress Dilemma

  • The bridesmaid dress dilemma exemplifies conflicting virtues: honesty vs. kindness vs. helpfulness.
  • Do you lie to be kind, or are you honest but potentially hurtful?
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