Best Theory of Ethics?

[durangodawood]

And which ethical position is this?

Does it have a name?

Does it have a rational method (because just about all of the moral positions of significance claim to be 'rational,' despite the fact that they can come to different conclusions of moral valuation and evaluation)?

Do we want to call it "Durangodawood-atology," or something like that?

I'm leaning on the rational basis that proponents of each theory have already provided. Generally they each hold water, I think. Just not all the water.

I'm willing to shift a few % here and there.

 

[public hermit]

Like I said earlier, there's a number here who think that there's some duty in the moral salad ...


... or maybe they finished watching season 4 of The Good Place and are now thoroughly confused!

I've heard good things about that show but haven't taken the time, yet.

 

[durangodawood]

Haha, this should be somewhere in the conclusion of every course on ethics.

This little exercise has reminded me how humans looove their "silver bullet", that one ideological weapon that knocks down everything. (See anything by Ayn Rand, or many biblical literalists)

I dont think most things in human affairs work that way. Multiple explanations are required for a proper picture of how thing work.

Getting abstract about this, we could call my view polytheistic in contrast to the silver-bullet monotheists. (One of Melville's deeper themes in Moby Dick)

 

[2PhiloVoid]

I've heard good things about that show but haven't taken the time, yet.

... it attempts to be a mild (and at times funny) tour-de-force through the field of Ethics.