Nisan comments on Virtue Ethics for Consequentialists - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Jack 06 June 2010 02:57:19PM 1 point [-]

As one might expect this issue of the distinction between ethics and morality routinely comes up in undergraduate philosophy courses. I have yet to hear a professor of philosophy endorse any distinction between morality and ethics and they often are perplexed that the general public seems to think there is one. Professional usage, not common usage, is what matters when we're thinking about issues in an academic field.

Comment author: tut 06 June 2010 04:05:54PM 0 points [-]

I thought that the standard answer was "one is latin and the other is greek".