The Half Life of Moral Reasoning

The other Cowen claims that sort of the ancients were predisposed to virtue ethics, which is focused on the individual character in large part because they lived in a world with low leverage. As we move to modernity, where so much of our behavior is scaled out through systems and technology, there's also a shift in moral thinking to utilitarianism. And I don't know if there's a metanormative claim there that we should therefore prefer utilitarianism but it's a fascinating explanation of moral theory as in some sense downstream of human efficacy and technology.