I just wanted to share this excellent guest essay, by Stefan Schubert & Lucius Caviola, we’ve just published on utilitarianism.net. As the authors argue: “in order to be effective in the real world, utilitarians should stake out a middle way [between common sense morality and naive utilitarianism]. They should by and large adopt the standard common sense virtues. But in addition to them, they should also adopt six virtues that go beyond the common sense virtues. While a utilitarian life is pretty normal in some ways, it is very different in others.”
Virtues for Real-World Utilitarians
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I just wanted to share this excellent guest essay, by Stefan Schubert & Lucius Caviola, we’ve just published on utilitarianism.net. As the authors argue: “in order to be effective in the real world, utilitarians should stake out a middle way [between common sense morality and naive utilitarianism]. They should by and large adopt the standard common sense virtues. But in addition to them, they should also adopt six virtues that go beyond the common sense virtues. While a utilitarian life is pretty normal in some ways, it is very different in others.”