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Better ways of thinking, feeling, and acting—around problems of meaning and meaninglessness; self and society; ethics, purpose, and value.

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    1. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Sep 2019
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      David Chapman Retweeted Jessie Sun

      “How moral do I need to be?” seems to be the main real-life moral question in the comfortable developed world. Both as a question of social perception, and as a problem of conscience/guilt. This leads to substantial anxiety, I think.https://twitter.com/JessieSunPsych/status/1168593223813455874 …

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      Jessie Sun @JessieSunPsych
      Replying to @drossbucket @mjbsp @Meaningness
      I came across @eschwitz’s paper a few months after starting the project, but thought my results were very much consistent with this idea of “aiming for moral mediocrity”. I cited it in the discussion, and would love to keep exploring this idea.
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    2. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Sep 2019
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      No extant moral framework lets you even formulate the Q “how moral should I be?”, much less gives a useful answer. The culture war is partly a consequence of bad strategies for managing moral anxiety. “What’s the least-effort trick for feeling and looking morally adequate?”

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    3. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 2 Sep 2019
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      As a meta-ethical matter, I think the answer is, "One should strive to be maximally moral," and it is a test of of a good moral framework that it lets you strive to do just that *without* implying extreme actions such as "give away all your material possessions."

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    4. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 2 Sep 2019
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      In other words, "maximally moral" implying extreme actions is a mark of a bad moral framework.

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    5. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @StephenPiment

      What framework(s) are good by this criterion?

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    6. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 2 Sep 2019
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      Virtue ethics, which can explicitly incorporate and prioritize virtues such as prudence (= phronesis, practical wisdom), and temperance (= sophrosyne, moderation).

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    7. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 2 Sep 2019
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      In virtue ethics, the "metrics" to be maximized are already higher-order metrics that have built-in notions of balance and self-regulation.

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    8. David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Sep 2019
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      Replying to @StephenPiment

      Is MacIntyre the best presentation of this, or would you recommend something else?

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    9. Stephen Pimentel‏ @StephenPiment 2 Sep 2019
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      No, MacIntyre is doing something a bit different with his emphasis on traditions (related and interesting, but different). Rosalind Hurthouse is probably the closest to a standard, modern reference:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199247994/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 …

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      David Chapman‏ @Meaningness 2 Sep 2019
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      Thank you!

      3:41 PM - 2 Sep 2019
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