I think there’s a certain prima facie plausibility to the traditional tripartite division. If you just think about the world in general, each of actors, actions, and states seem salient. It wouldn’t take much to convince me that—appropriately defined—actors, actions, and states are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive in some metaphysical sense.
Once you accept the actors, actions, states division, it makes sense to have ethical theories revolving around each. These corresponds to virtue ethics, deontology and consequentialism.
I think there’s a certain prima facie plausibility to the traditional tripartite division. If you just think about the world in general, each of actors, actions, and states seem salient. It wouldn’t take much to convince me that—appropriately defined—actors, actions, and states are mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive in some metaphysical sense.
Once you accept the actors, actions, states division, it makes sense to have ethical theories revolving around each. These corresponds to virtue ethics, deontology and consequentialism.