
EA Global Melbourne: Philosophy and Effective Altruism Panel (Hilary Greaves, Peter Singer, Justin Oakley, and David Pearce)
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The Disguised Implication of Utilitarianism in Altruism
The key issues in ethics at the moment that bears on effective altruism is what's known as the situatious critique of virtue ethics. So try to understand not only how having a better character helps people to act well, but also what environment they're in. Ah, so for me, i'm keen to do that, i guess, in my own work at monash, i teach a lot of helth professionals. Not only thinking about how to help them be more virtuous, i suppose, which is not the other thing i aim to do with the doctors that i teach. Yes. Well, i op slightly out of touch now witha anathetic philosophy. But one issue that
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