
The Value of Human Life with Eron Fasser
Brain in a Vat
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The Role of Moral Judgment in Moral Philosophy
There's a distinction in moral philosophy between wrong or permissible or impossible actions versus something you may want to say about the person's character. So we could imagine a circumstance where we can't really point to any right or wrong making property of the action itself, but would still have moral qualms about being that sort of person who would do that. And I might be able to explain the wrongness of Jason's case with the voodoo doll by showing how there is an erotaic judgment so erotaic comes from the Greek word, which means virtue. One of the problems with virtue ethics is we've got all these virtues that stand alongside each other, and it's not clear which was
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