187. What Does It Mean To Be Virtuous Now? feat. Christian Miller

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc · Sep 19, 2022 · 58m

Character is a uniquely human feature, based on questions of agency, responsibility, free will and choice. But what qualifies as good or bad character, and how do we decide where we fall in this spectrum?Christian Miller is the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, and currently the Director of the Honesty Project. His main areas of research are meta-ethics, moral psychology, moral character, action theory, and philosophy of religion. He is the author of over 100 academic papers as well as a number of books including “The Character Gap: How Good Are We?,” and “Honesty…