sustainable patterns of behavior over the history of a civilization.
Kantian: 'The end doesn't justify the means.' Utilitarian: 'If the end doesn't justify the means, what does?'
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which, in ideal circumstances, reconciles Kant and Mill. The moral axiom creates the best ends, which justifies the means.
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Who says that the ends could justify the means but people are way too overconfident about their forecasts of what the ends will actually be?
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Asperger philosophers still think that people should act according to rigid explicit principles. Who cares about Kant in 2017 anyway?
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