To me, it looks like consequentialists care exclusively about prudence, which I also care about, and not at all about morality, which I also care about. It looks to me like the thing consequentialists call morality just is prudence and comes from the same places prudence comes from—wanting things, appreciating the nature of cause and effect, etc.
Could you elaborate on what this thing you call “morality” is?
To me, it seems like the “morality” that deontology aspires to be, or to represent / capture, doesn’t actually exist, and thus deontology fails on its own criterion. Consequentialism also fails in this sense, of course, but consequentialism does not actually attempt to work as the sort of “morality” you seem to be referring to.
To me, it looks like consequentialists care exclusively about prudence, which I also care about, and not at all about morality, which I also care about. It looks to me like the thing consequentialists call morality just is prudence and comes from the same places prudence comes from—wanting things, appreciating the nature of cause and effect, etc.
Thank you for all of your clarifications, I think I now understand how you are viewing morality.
Could you elaborate on what this thing you call “morality” is?
To me, it seems like the “morality” that deontology aspires to be, or to represent / capture, doesn’t actually exist, and thus deontology fails on its own criterion. Consequentialism also fails in this sense, of course, but consequentialism does not actually attempt to work as the sort of “morality” you seem to be referring to.