My overall guess is after surfing through / skimming philosophy literature on this for many hours is you can probably find all core ideas of this post somewhere in it, but it’s pretty frustrating—scattered in many places and diluted by things which are more confused.
Everything below is taken from vague concepts philosophers talk about all the time, but which I can’t find a single good online explanation of.
and yet I’m glad he distilled them, just like I’m glad you distilled those scattered ideas into this single post I can share with friends in a low-friction way.
See also Two-Level Utilitarianism
Nice, thanks for the pointer.
My overall guess is after surfing through / skimming philosophy literature on this for many hours is you can probably find all core ideas of this post somewhere in it, but it’s pretty frustrating—scattered in many places and diluted by things which are more confused.
Scott’s classic essay Axiology, morality, law also begins (in section II) with
and yet I’m glad he distilled them, just like I’m glad you distilled those scattered ideas into this single post I can share with friends in a low-friction way.