Happiness…?
(Not consquentialist anymore but was before And still think it’s a Good way of looking At The World)
Best results for whom, and in which context? I feel like this is a question that cannot be answered by simply saying “X”.
Do you mean in general?
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I lean ‘flourishing’ over ‘happiness’ because it gets around a lot of dumb gotcha questions like “so would you force everyone to be hooked up to the utilitarian happiness machines against their will???” and “so is murder okay if you’re murdering a sad person???”
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Not if you say that killing that Person takes away all happiness they could have experienced
Okay, I try to understand “flourishing”
does it mean “let people live like they want”?
I would say doing Good without bias to law or order And doing best Good Person can do imply it
not … necessarily? there are definitely circumstances where it would mean that, and for things where the answer isn’t obvious it’s a good proxy for flourishing on the grounds that, like, other people are better equipped than I am to know which tradeoffs are worthwhile for them to make in cases where they have to make a tradeoff, but there are obviously circumstances where someone might want to do something contradictory to their flourishing (or, probably more relevantly, circumstances where they might want to do something conducive to their flourishing but harmful to that of other people)
I think the first one implies not being a deontologist but I don’t think it implies specifically being a consequentialist
I just want to shove people in front of trolleys why do you have to make it complicated
^this is a joke