Oh yes, I should probably state my position. I want to call the judgement about whether a particular action is good or evil the “moral component”, and everything else the “amoral” component. Thus ethics amounts to two things:
1) making the judgement about whether the action is good or evil as accurate as possible (this is the “wisdom” part)
2) acting in accordance with this judgement, i.e., performing good actions and not performing evil actions (this is the “willpower” part)
Why do you want to split things up that way? As opposed to splitting them up into the part requiring a quick answer and the part you can think about a long time (certainly practical), or the part related to short-term outcome versus the part related to long-term outcome, or other ways of categorizing decisions?
Oh yes, I should probably state my position. I want to call the judgement about whether a particular action is good or evil the “moral component”, and everything else the “amoral” component. Thus ethics amounts to two things:
1) making the judgement about whether the action is good or evil as accurate as possible (this is the “wisdom” part)
2) acting in accordance with this judgement, i.e., performing good actions and not performing evil actions (this is the “willpower” part)
Why do you want to split things up that way? As opposed to splitting them up into the part requiring a quick answer and the part you can think about a long time (certainly practical), or the part related to short-term outcome versus the part related to long-term outcome, or other ways of categorizing decisions?