First, before anything, we must ask ourselves what it means to have a successful life. Everything is on the table. This is each person's own task. The method about going about this task, a how-to, that is what philosophy can be, that is what this is.
It seems a natural way to start would be to examine the experiments. Look at the world, how different people are leading their different lives. See if you can who is the most "successful." What is it about them that makes them successful. What are the presuppositions of their success (I doubt it will be their "truth" or "rationality").
Don't be afraid of the absence of "common-sense morality." Besides the fact that no-one is listening to me to us, there is at base something functional about this morality (perhaps it has never been anything but functional at a certain level).
The final product, if there is one, will be a theory about how to best live in this world, with these people. 2009 - United States - Atlanta. How is it that such an obvious point is so obviously overlooked. It is fun to fantasize about what ethical theories would work if everyone was like you and followed "the" ethical theory, but wake up from your wet-dream, this won't happen.
Life is an experiment. Draw conclusions, try them out, experiment with life! Just think about all the many many different ways of life never even tried - true experimental philosophy. How is it, why is it, that we have only so far experienced one narrow sliver in the woods. But there are no other roads you say? well roads are the problem, we should be swinging from treetop to treetop!
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