There’s is a trap that consequentialists can easily fall into that the author describes beautifully in this post. I think the solution solution within consequentialism is to see that consequentialism doesn’t recommend that we we only praise the highest achievers. Praise and blame are only justified within consequentialism when they produce good consequences, and it’s beneficial to praise a wide variety of people, most especially people who are trying their hardest to improve the world.
For a fuller spectrum account of what it is to live a moral life, you can add ‘virtue consequentialism’ to your consequentialism. This position is just the observation that within consequentialism, virtues can be defined as character traits that lead to good consequences, and it’s useful to cultivate these.
There’s is a trap that consequentialists can easily fall into that the author describes beautifully in this post. I think the solution solution within consequentialism is to see that consequentialism doesn’t recommend that we we only praise the highest achievers. Praise and blame are only justified within consequentialism when they produce good consequences, and it’s beneficial to praise a wide variety of people, most especially people who are trying their hardest to improve the world.
For a fuller spectrum account of what it is to live a moral life, you can add ‘virtue consequentialism’ to your consequentialism. This position is just the observation that within consequentialism, virtues can be defined as character traits that lead to good consequences, and it’s useful to cultivate these.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5489019-uneasy-virtue