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You're listening to Partly Examineamine Life episode 369, part two.

We've been discussing Philipa Foote's book, Natural Goodness, and we've got a lot of overview.

I think we want to dive more, more into the actual text and giving quotes and things,

and not just taking our word for the fact that some of this is confusing.

So I think we're still in chapter one here, just about 11 pages in.

So I think the next she's going to say that, you know, as we've said,

goodness has to be built into practical rationality from the ground up.

And she'll make the claim on pages 14 to 15 that no one can act with full practical

rationality in pursuit of a bad end, even if they do it really well, right? Even if it's done

quote unquote rationally, like I said, with a knife being good at robbing someone, for instance,

and pulling all that off perfectly.

So morality, and this is where she says she agrees with Kant, morality is concerned

specifically with goodness of the will. But she wants to ground that in essential features of a

specifically human life.

And that's what's going to lead us to this analogy with plants and animals, where we can talk

about rationality or the will as a characteristic of human beings that we can treat on

analogy to say roots in a plant.

And we can say whether it's functioning properly or not on that

analogy. Right. So even though Kant takes us his first step, that only morality always has to come

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