PeterS comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PeterS 04 June 2010 09:31:16PM *  0 points [-]

Oh, sorry, I wasn't clear.

Maybe I wasn't either... are we actually disagreeing here? Heh.

it would be ethical (in the sense of being a rule of professional conduct) and unethical (in a different sense of the word 'ethical') at the same time. . . [link to some definitions]

I know the word is used in the sense of definitions 1 and 3. What I'm saying is that I think it's more interesting to forget the moral usage altogether, and just stick with saying that ethics is #2, because when you think about it they are very distinct concepts.

Comment author: Blueberry 04 June 2010 09:41:00PM 1 point [-]

It's worth teasing out a few different definitions. There are at least four distinct concepts:

  • Rules of professional conduct, which do not necessarily relate to doing the right thing or anyone's benefit at all

  • A normative prescription

  • Rules for the individual's benefit

  • Rules for the group's benefit

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