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#305 - Moral Knowledge

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Paradox of Virtue Ethics

In virtue ethics, a reasonable thing would be how well a human being fulfills their potential or something like that. But again, it's not my consequences. The moment you point to bad consequences, I'm going to let's just say you have courage, right, which is a virtue, but in the service of some awful end. So there's kind of a paradox there, but again, it consequentialism runs through it from all sides,.

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