Yes, precisely! That is exactly why I used the word “Satisfying” rather than another word like “good”, “accurate,” or even “self-consistent.” I remember in my bioethics class, the professor steadily challenging everyone on their initial impression of Kantian or consequentialist ethics until they found some consequence of that sort of reasoning they found unbearable.
I agree on all counts, though I’m not actually certain that having a self-contradictory set of values is necessarily a bad thing? It usually is, but many human aesthetic values are self-contradictory, yet I think I prefer to keep them around. I may change my mind on this later.
Yes, precisely! That is exactly why I used the word “Satisfying” rather than another word like “good”, “accurate,” or even “self-consistent.” I remember in my bioethics class, the professor steadily challenging everyone on their initial impression of Kantian or consequentialist ethics until they found some consequence of that sort of reasoning they found unbearable.
I agree on all counts, though I’m not actually certain that having a self-contradictory set of values is necessarily a bad thing? It usually is, but many human aesthetic values are self-contradictory, yet I think I prefer to keep them around. I may change my mind on this later.