You're listening to the Parsley Examined Life, a podcast by some guys, where at one point set on doing philosophy for a living, but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 369 is something like, can we base ethics on the model of biology?

And we read the first four chapters or so of Philip Afoot's 2001 book, Natural Goodness.

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This is Mark Linton Meyer in Madison, Wisconsin, rating myself pretty pretty good when it comes to having developed to maturity, sustained myself to date, and

reproduced.

This is Seth Paskin impractically rational in Austin, Texas.

This is West Allan, depending directly on my relation to my life form in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

All right.

We got the classic group, the original.

The natural group, we might want to say.

Still in his vacationing today. It is Memorial Day as we were recording this. And this reading makes me memorialize. Alastair McIntyre just died. And we're again returning to some neo--istatelianism. I thought we were maybe going to

spend some more time in so-called modern philosophy back, you know, contemporaries of Hume.

But Wes, your fancy, has chased out ahead. And we have the next couple of readings picked out

in this area of modern, late 20th century, or in this case, yeah, 2001, ethics,

which is a fine thing to have a bunch of episodes on.

And she's basically playing in an area that we're familiar with from Aristotle,

although there are other people she's reacting to.

Yeah, say a little about why this book, why now.

Yeah, I don't remember why I started reading this. I just, I was looking at different 20th century classics that I thought were very

readable and interesting and related to the, some of the issues that have been raised with reading Hume. And I thought that

Philip of Foot was just very fun to read. Now, my second reading, I have to say, reading her

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