I don’t think it’s plausible that there’ll ever be widespread agreement on any philosophical framework to be used to make policy decisions. In fact, I think that it’s much easier to make public policy decisions without trying to have a framework, precisely because the intuitions tend to be more shared than the systematizations.
I’ve never seen an actual political process that spent much time on a specific framework, and I’ve surely never heard of a constitution or other fundamental law or political consensus, anywhere, that said, let alone enforced, anything like “we’re a utilitarian society and will choose policies accordingly” or “we’re a virtue ethics society and will choose policies accordingly” or whatever.
Sorry, missed this somehow.
I don’t think it’s plausible that there’ll ever be widespread agreement on any philosophical framework to be used to make policy decisions. In fact, I think that it’s much easier to make public policy decisions without trying to have a framework, precisely because the intuitions tend to be more shared than the systematizations.
I’ve never seen an actual political process that spent much time on a specific framework, and I’ve surely never heard of a constitution or other fundamental law or political consensus, anywhere, that said, let alone enforced, anything like “we’re a utilitarian society and will choose policies accordingly” or “we’re a virtue ethics society and will choose policies accordingly” or whatever.