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cinc's avatar

Virtue ethics feels like the equivalent of this to me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2dt2MPpFlo

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Vikram V.'s avatar

Unfathomably based

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Lucas Sierra's avatar

I thought utilitarianism was the philosophy of impartial benevolence, which sounds like a virtue to me.

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Bentham's Bulldog's avatar

You don't have to be a virtue ethicist to believe in virtue.

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Lucas Sierra's avatar

I meant: utilitarianism depicts morality as being *entirely about* the practice of a certain virtue.

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Lucas Sierra's avatar

I should've written: utilitarianism *seems* to depict morality as being entirely about the practice of a certain virtue.

*not assuming you agree with this, but wondering why you would disagree if you do...

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The Water Line's avatar

Lol it's possible to be a utilitarian and also promote certain virtues, and you could plausibly call that being a virtue ethicist

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