“How moral do I need to be?” seems to be the main real-life moral question in the comfortable developed world. Both as a question of social perception, and as a problem of conscience/guilt. This leads to substantial anxiety, I think.https://twitter.com/JessieSunPsych/status/1168593223813455874 …
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Virtue ethics, which can explicitly incorporate and prioritize virtues such as prudence (= phronesis, practical wisdom), and temperance (= sophrosyne, moderation).
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In virtue ethics, the "metrics" to be maximized are already higher-order metrics that have built-in notions of balance and self-regulation.
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It really should not be surprising that this description perfectly fits Aristotle's ethical model from the Nicomachean Ethics. What is surprising is that we Moderns (and Post Moderns) seem to have forgotten our roots.
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