Let's work to bring these shifts in consensus reality into being.| jonathanrowson.substack.com
Peter Singer is rightfully applauded as a philosophical giant. He's also spectacularly wrong.| www.aporiamagazine.com
Socialism is the most effective altruism. Who needs anything else? The repugnant philosophy of “Effective Altruism” offers nothing to movements for global justice.| www.currentaffairs.org
A back-of-the-envelope plan to change our relationship to what is real, what is good, and how we live.| perspecteeva.substack.com
By Simon Knutsson Version from April 15, 2024, posted online April 19, 2024, addition made to acknowledgements June 15, 2024 Draft Comments are very welcome to simonknutsson@gmail.com Summary Readers might have heard a story about population ethics that goes something…| Simon Knutsson
Approaches to Ethics There are three basic approaches to ethics, each focusing on a different aspect: Name Focus Example Virtue Ethics Integrity Greek heros Deontology Rules Kant Consequentialism Outcomes “The ends justify the means” Most schools of ethics are a mixture of the three, but you can find some examples of purish versions, e.g. Stoicism is a pretty pure form of Virtue Ethics, Kant’s categorical imperative an example of Deontology, and Utilitarism an example of Consequentialism.| ahiru.pl
After defining utilitarianism, this chapter offers a detailed analysis of its four key elements (consequentialism, welfarism, impartiality, and aggregationism). It explains the difference between maximizing, satisficing, and scalar utilitarianism, and other important distinctions between utilitarian theories.| Utilitarianism.net
Population ethics tackles questions like how we should weigh new lives against existing lives, and how we should balance quantity and quality of life (when comparing different-sized populations). This chapter critically surveys five major approaches to population ethics: the total view, the average view, variable value theories, critical level (and critical range) theories, and person-affecting views.| Utilitarianism.net
If moral philosophy is a train to crazy town, at what stop should we disembark?| conversationswithtyler.com
Texts on this and that.| Erich Grunewald's Blog
