shahab on Nostr: "The real business of living is figuring out what matters in life, and the purpose of ...

"The real business of living is figuring out what matters in life, and the purpose of moral philosophy should be to help this task. So long as ethical theories help, their methods and insights are welcome. However, modern ethical theories, for all their genuine help, also threaten life and character. Taken to their limits, prominent modern ethical theories would squeeze out, ignore, or deform things that matter. I for one am glad that people have not taken our most prominent ethical theories to heart in all their details. While some philosophers bemoan this failure and chalk it up to ignorance and insolence, I think many reflective people have taken these theories with a grain of philosophical salt, following the different call of what they think matters, no matter what the theory says. And this all for the better."

—Anthony Cunningham