timtyler comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: timtyler 05 June 2010 07:47:08AM *  -1 points [-]

The dictionary simply doesn't distinguish between these terms on the basis of who they benefit. In fact it defines ethics in terms of morality in most cases.