Thanks for replying You made more points which dovetail with my own observations. I’d qualify (again) my previous comment as not an endorsement of virtue ethics generally, but an acknowledgement that it can be valuable. I might consider a form of consequentialism to be better than any other system we have right now for an ideal rational agent, but I don’t believe that humans in their current state will reach the best results they could achieve by pretending to be consequentialists. I don’t know how humans will fare in their ethical behavior in a future where our mind-brains are modified.
Thanks for replying You made more points which dovetail with my own observations. I’d qualify (again) my previous comment as not an endorsement of virtue ethics generally, but an acknowledgement that it can be valuable. I might consider a form of consequentialism to be better than any other system we have right now for an ideal rational agent, but I don’t believe that humans in their current state will reach the best results they could achieve by pretending to be consequentialists. I don’t know how humans will fare in their ethical behavior in a future where our mind-brains are modified.