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@unspeakablehorror ethics can’t be purely based on consequences as #consequentialists believe because there are paradoxes that result from doing so

https://philpapers.org/rec/IONCJP

#utilitarian

Arthur Ionescu, The Consequentialist Judgment Paradox - PhilPapers

In normative ethics, some of the oldest and still lively debates revolve around the question of consequentialism. The question is not so much about making a binary decision between consequentialism and ...

PugJesus Apr 26

A very utilitarian steel round shield, Germany, ~1600 AD

🄻🅄🄽🄰 Apr 2

a knife 4 non knife approved activities

#tools #knife #trade #utilitarian

J Lou Feb 7

The fallacy at the heart of welfare economics

https://davidellerman.substack.com/p/the-petitio-principii-fallacy-in

@economics_that_works

#Economics #EconTwitter #Econ #PoliticalEconomy #WelfareEconomics #Philosophy #Ethics #Utilitarianism #Utilitarian #Consequentialism #Consequentialist #capitalism #Egalitarianism #Egalitarian #Inequality

The Petitio Principii Fallacy in the Kaldor-Hicks Principle, Law & Economics, and Cost-Benefit Analysis:

A prime example of intellectual conformity (a.k.a. cowardice) in conventional Economics

PolyMathy Musings / David Ellerman

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J Lou Feb 1

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing @sz_duras

Depending on the particulars of the #utilitarian argument, the case can work or not. If it is preference/desire satisfaction utilitarianism the case for capitalism follows from that any mutually beneficial transaction improves welfare. Capitalist employment is that assuming full consent. My response to such arguments is debunking #consequentialist #ethics. And rejecting collective preference satisfaction as the good in favor of freedom.

J Lou Jan 28

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jlou/115970177564955152

@ArthurI what do you think of this resolution I came up with to the consequentialist judgement paradox you came up with?

#philosophy #ethics #Consequentialism #utilitarian #utilitarianism #consequentialist #deontology #deontological

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J Lou Jan 25

@wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing @sz_duras The reason competition between firms is necessary is because there is no way to enforce the firms doing a good job without having other people working on similar projects to compare to. It also prevents mismanagement.

I also think you’re straw manning pro-capitalists. Most centrists support capitalism on #utilitarian or individual rights based grounds. These ethics aren’t rooted in flawed analogies to Darwinian evolution.