Actually, I’d love to read an overview of the most important/influential moral philosophers of the 20th century and their ideas. It is the kind of thing that someone who is knowledgeable about the area could throw together relatively easily, but someone who knows almost nothing about it (like me) would spend weeks or months learning the basics.
I would if I knew more about it! Haha. But I think that my entire understanding of contractualism and Scanlon would only take up two or three sentences.
I am interested in learning more about ethics and moral philosophy, but I’m not interested in applying to a masters degree in philosophy, nor delving through a few dozen densely-written tomes.
Adopting an anthropologist’s lens, I do find it curious that we EAs focus so much on a few small sections of the moral theories that exist, but I’m not sure if that is more due to “these ones are the best” or due to some type of oversight/bias/sloppy thinking.
I would like to hear more about this. Want to write a post about it?
Actually, I’d love to read an overview of the most important/influential moral philosophers of the 20th century and their ideas. It is the kind of thing that someone who is knowledgeable about the area could throw together relatively easily, but someone who knows almost nothing about it (like me) would spend weeks or months learning the basics.
I think many introductions to moral philosophy will do this!
I think this is probably not the case! Writing succinctly about big ideas is very difficult.
Hmmm. This gives me a small update toward thinking that I should just find a moral philosophy textbook and work my way through it.
I would if I knew more about it! Haha. But I think that my entire understanding of contractualism and Scanlon would only take up two or three sentences.
I am interested in learning more about ethics and moral philosophy, but I’m not interested in applying to a masters degree in philosophy, nor delving through a few dozen densely-written tomes.
Adopting an anthropologist’s lens, I do find it curious that we EAs focus so much on a few small sections of the moral theories that exist, but I’m not sure if that is more due to “these ones are the best” or due to some type of oversight/bias/sloppy thinking.