I think that might be human arrogance. To think our concepts are important outsise us.
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i'd agree that the same principles could be discovered again if another social species much like us evolved.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @allyOfTheKurds
Yep. Luckily, it seems much of that work was done twenty years back. Virtue ethicists decided to try science.
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Replying to @tibfulv @allyOfTheKurds
Not with you. Talking abt consistent human principles that span the ages and are pan-cultural.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @allyOfTheKurds
Yep. Helps to realise that as data, cultures are highly contradictory, and thus mostly useless.
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It's not a field that's in the public eye. But you know the trolley experiment? From them, afaict.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @allyOfTheKurds
Virtue ethicists. They dropped deontology in the 50s, and started testing Aristotle.
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Replying to @tibfulv
OK but ethics and morality existed before them. They seem to have existed as long as humans have.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Indeed, but like any field, you can find out something surprising in it if you study it. :D
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We can understand our nature better. But we do need to exist for our nature to and for our morality to.
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