A C Molino on Nostr: There’s a lot there. Best to deal with tiny bits at a time. SCENARIO: Frank creates ...
There’s a lot there. Best to deal with tiny bits at a time.
SCENARIO:
Frank creates songs and hates people stealing them. Joan is considering stealing a few songs because she’s poor and believes that it’s best for musicians to give their music away as promotional material.
VIRTUE ETHICS SOLUTION:
The relevant virtues are honesty, justice, integrity, and compassion. There is also a relevant vice here (masquerading as a virtue): being patronizing.
The right action is the action done by the truly honest, just, integrated, and compassionate person.
So, what does he or she do? We cannot say with certainty, any more than we can say how a Ju-Jitsu blackbelt will win a fight. But we can recognize a Ju-Jitsu expert from a common street thug.
I’ll use this as a starter. How do you think Joan and Frank might act to show virtue here?
By the way, don’t worry if you find Virtue Ethics annoyingly vague. That’s quite a natural response.
SCENARIO:
Frank creates songs and hates people stealing them. Joan is considering stealing a few songs because she’s poor and believes that it’s best for musicians to give their music away as promotional material.
VIRTUE ETHICS SOLUTION:
The relevant virtues are honesty, justice, integrity, and compassion. There is also a relevant vice here (masquerading as a virtue): being patronizing.
The right action is the action done by the truly honest, just, integrated, and compassionate person.
So, what does he or she do? We cannot say with certainty, any more than we can say how a Ju-Jitsu blackbelt will win a fight. But we can recognize a Ju-Jitsu expert from a common street thug.
I’ll use this as a starter. How do you think Joan and Frank might act to show virtue here?
By the way, don’t worry if you find Virtue Ethics annoyingly vague. That’s quite a natural response.