prase comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

33 Post author: Will_Newsome 04 June 2010 04:08PM

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Comment author: prase 04 June 2010 07:25:19PM *  0 points [-]

This is the way I thought about it after reading the OP - virtue ethics as time-consistent consequentialism. But maybe I don't understand correctly what means to be a virtue ethicist. If it is "try to modify your source code¹ to consistently perform the best actions on average", it does oppose neither consequentialism nor deontology: "best" may be evaluated using whatever standard.

¹) I dislike the epression but couldn't find a better formulation