“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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No extant moral framework lets you even formulate the Q “how moral should I be?”, much less gives a useful answer. The culture war is partly a consequence of bad strategies for managing moral anxiety. “What’s the least-effort trick for feeling and looking morally adequate?”
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As a meta-ethical matter, I think the answer is, "One should strive to be maximally moral," and it is a test of of a good moral framework that it lets you strive to do just that *without* implying extreme actions such as "give away all your material possessions."
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In other words, "maximally moral" implying extreme actions is a mark of a bad moral framework.
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What framework(s) are good by this criterion?
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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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Is MacIntyre the best presentation of this, or would you recommend something else?
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No, MacIntyre is doing something a bit different with his emphasis on traditions (related and interesting, but different). Rosalind Hurthouse is probably the closest to a standard, modern reference:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199247994/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0 …
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