@Meaningness When people ask "how ethical should I be", maybe they're modeling themselves as acting on base motives by default,
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@Meaningness but being pulled in other directions like altruism or rule-following by moral reflection,1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness and asking how strongly they should be so pulled before it causes them to overshoot the ethical-philosophically best action.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@Meaningness E.g. "How ethical [pulled toward altruistic] should [according to utilitarianism] I [who am inclined to be egoistic] be?"2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@MemberOfSpecies I think that’s probably right except the [according to utilitarianism].3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness But it seems like considerations are similar for e.g. how much one should follow rules at one's own expense.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness I guess the intuition is that the "should" here doesn't actually represent theories like utilitarianism and deontology.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness What if it represents a theory that's a mix of utilitarianism and ethical egoism?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@MemberOfSpecies I doubt that… but it’s sufficiently unexplored territory that maybe my guess is not worth much!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Meaningness A mix of utilitarianism and ethical egoism doesn't have supererogation, just irrational neglect of the egoist component.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@MemberOfSpecies The direction I’ve developed this stuff would give a quite different analysis, but probably twitter can’t handle that; >
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@MemberOfSpecies > too much conceptual context required. Um, you’re going in an analytic direction and mine is more Continental-ish…0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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