We're going to explore in the days and weeks to come the contrast between consequentialist and categorical moral principles.

Had there been no egoism, distrust, malicious behaviors, and dictatorships with no one violating the rights of others

Democracy Comes Second

Now we've given up with the idea of sermons.

On that terrible night, the world saw in gruesome detail the terrible nature of chemical weapons.

Sexist cavemen at that.

There are no more reasons not to do it.

At a macro level, he thought, you know, we talk about democracy promotion, but we do it in a way sometimes that's an affront to people's dignity.

Ever the nostalgiste, eh Rat?

I have an urgent need to expand my humanitarian program.

Here, I interviewed people who were residents of formerly communist countries, who had all faced the challenge of transitioning to a more democratic and capitalistic society.

In the state of the world that will result from the thing you do but then we went a little further, we considered those other cases and people weren't so sure about consequentialist moral reasoning when people hesitated to push the fat man over the bridge or to yank out the organs of the innocent patient people gestured towards reasons having to do with the intrinsic quality of the act itself.

So how can you live little?

Diseased old mystics.

That's what makes America different. That's what makes us exceptional.

That is snobbery.

So, some recognition has to be included in the machinery in order to do this job right.

I started to realize that, you know, this is actually a universal story.

Today and in the next few days we will begin to examine one of the most influential versions of consequentialist moral theory and that's the philosophy of utilitarianism.

It'll be humane.

This is very interesting. Cultural perceptions are subjective.

I feature organic process.

That will produce a legitimate and accountable government.

Wouldn't it be awesome if we all had BLlS on our phones?

You never get off, and you never really feel satisfied.

That sound familiar?

So the distance from the world that is provided, is profoundly creative of all that is human, both the machiavellian and the erasmian.

pathway to personal freedom.

We'll talk about that in a second.

My parents with their pureblood mania.

Democracy encourages freedom.

The program of spreading the liberal order requires a much more sophisticated approach. Above all, it requires international agencies and groupings that remain alert to the risks of illiberal democracies.

Capitalist jihad. Smart.

A conservative is not always a reactionary.

On the political level the response was the nationalist and fundamentalist revolt of the Maccabees.

Parties and Populists

A good person is a moral person.

The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.

I'm finishing on this line.

He was excited by nationalistic sentiment.

Not the communists and not the French.

And that regime that we got rid of was actually a dictatorship, an authoritarian regime, that for decades created a great sense of paralysis within the nation, within the people themselves.

The communists control that road at night.

So, I think you're dealing with something that people instinctively see as part of their moral sense.

I never requested money to a man and I won't make it now.