My current moral framework consists of a positive-liberty maximizing consequentialist sub-agent, a hedonic utilitarian sub-agent and a preference utilitarian sub-agent making moral trades with each other. I don’t have a formalization of this. When I say “positive-liberty maximizing consequentialist” I am trying to put the moral intuitions behind rights into an ordered series of world-states rather than deontological injunctions. Positive liberty maximizing consequentialism is somewhat similar to the capability approach in development economics(https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capability-approach/) but at a higher level of abstraction. It’s not a statement about what object level decisions should be made but a moral philosophical claim about what goodness is. We talk about “freedom of speech” and “freedom of association” and other freedoms in the language of laws and rules but there’s consequences that we are trying to point to using those principles are heuristics towards, and I think it can be framed in the amount of options available for a given agent.
My current moral framework consists of a positive-liberty maximizing consequentialist sub-agent, a hedonic utilitarian sub-agent and a preference utilitarian sub-agent making moral trades with each other. I don’t have a formalization of this. When I say “positive-liberty maximizing consequentialist” I am trying to put the moral intuitions behind rights into an ordered series of world-states rather than deontological injunctions. Positive liberty maximizing consequentialism is somewhat similar to the capability approach in development economics(https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/capability-approach/) but at a higher level of abstraction. It’s not a statement about what object level decisions should be made but a moral philosophical claim about what goodness is. We talk about “freedom of speech” and “freedom of association” and other freedoms in the language of laws and rules but there’s consequences that we are trying to point to using those principles are heuristics towards, and I think it can be framed in the amount of options available for a given agent.