Blueberry comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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

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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