Episode #245 ... The Rival Moral Approaches of the Modern World - Alasdair Macintyre

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  So there 's a pretty innocent statement I want to start this episode with that,

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  by the way, I 'll return back to throughout the episode and no doubt annoy some of you with it along the way.

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  Just doing my job here.

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  But it is a crucial piece of information that we need to remember if we want to understand where Alistair McIntyre

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  is starting his thinking from for the rest of his work.

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  A big point that 'll ground all the rest he has to say is that there is no view from nowhere when it comes to statements

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  that we make about morality or value.

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  That is something we need to remember is a guarantee of what we even mean

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  when we 're talking about morality as a concept.

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  And you know, it's easy to forget that this is a premise he's always operating from.

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  But just remember all we talked about last time when we went over his book,

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  After Virtue, that when we try to remove teleology from moral discussion or any shared ideas about what a human life

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  is for, in other words, when a view from nowhere becomes your biggest goal in moral conversation,

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  then what we end up with is something like a hellscape of emotivism.

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