Morality limits what people can do. Bad people still have moral theories they cannot help but follow. And these aren't arbitrary. They can be understood (and thus incorporated into strategies for dealing with them).
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Ethics is particular, applied decision theory/game theory. Obviously they have to be related
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It’s not obvious how to describe Christianity in that framework. (I’ve made a few stabs, none of which satisfy me.)
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I think Simone Weil might have had one, but unfortunately Gravity and Grace is so epigrammatic it’s hard to extract the plain meaning.
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Any crits of this model?: http://www.reasonisfun.com/articles/popperian-morality/ …
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I've recently finished reading "Voices" by Thomas Green which has some interesting things to say about the subject. It's more a theory of moral development than a theory of ethics, but argues that morality arises through acquiring various (possibly competing) consciences.
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You could fold this into a decision theory (morality as changing the value function rather than constraining behaviour), though my impression of the book is that he would be strongly against doing so.
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