Peter Singer
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard 20 Apr
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Well, I'm a consequentialist.
Oh, I guessed.
You guessed, yes.
Not a secret.
I have been for my entire career.
A consequentialist is somebody who thinks that the right actions are those that have the best consequences.
Whereas a deontologist essentially denies that, says sometimes an action is right, even though it will have all things considered and for everybody affected, worse consequences than some other action.
And a virtue ethicist, I think actually virtue ethics is compatible in some form with consequentialism, perhaps also with deontology.
Because virtue ethics simply says,
You should be the kind of being who has a character of virtue, that is virtuous.
And then, of course, we have to define what virtuous means.
And that's fairly open.
But a consequentialist will say, well, the virtues one should have are those that in the long run will tend to produce the best consequences.
Yeah.
I do find virtue ethics.
Sorry, go ahead.
I was just going to say, I don't really see that as a completely independent thing.
moral view.
That's right.
You can think of consequentialism as the genus and utilitarianism as the species.
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