Five: Prof Will MacAskill on moral uncertainty, utilitarianism & how to avoid being a moral monster
Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours
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Is This Really New Idea in Moral Philosophy?
There is a tradition of catholic theologians working on this topic. In particular, en, you had different moral authorities who disagreed. And there were actually a variety of views staked out about how you ought to have resolved that disagreement. But in general, it is remarkably neglected. We are just not very good at reasoning probablistically and then secondly, were particularly bad at reasoning relistically if you don't get feedback. Because morality, if it's true, moral truths are necessarily true a prali,. It's not the case tha you're getting like empirical feedback if you're not acting in this way.
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