From e7dd5245c35d2794f59bcf700a6a92009ec8c478 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Preston Pan Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 21:30:42 -0700 Subject: stuff --- mindmap/consequentialism.org | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) create mode 100644 mindmap/consequentialism.org (limited to 'mindmap/consequentialism.org') diff --git a/mindmap/consequentialism.org b/mindmap/consequentialism.org new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d277173 --- /dev/null +++ b/mindmap/consequentialism.org @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +:PROPERTIES: +:ID: 4b4d4071-2ef4-4a6d-ada3-adc8cac425cc +:END: +#+title: consequentialism +#+author: Preston Pan +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+html_head: +#+options: broken-links:t +* Introduction +Consequentialism is a set of metaethical views that give importance to the consequence of actions rather than some +inherent quality in the action. Examples of consequentialism include [[id:326eb3f8-680a-432c-bf69-42ba4d366116][egoism]] and utilitarianism. This is in contrast +to [[id:6d8c8bcc-58b0-4267-8035-81b3bf753505][frameworks]] that posit that there is some inherent moral quality to certain things or actions, such as virtue ethics +or deontologism. I posit that these non-consequentialist frameworks are special cases of consequentialist calculation, +less abstracted versions of the same phenomenon. Of course, to say anything is more or less abstract is itself +suspect as anything can be explained in terms of anything else, but it is a useful fiction to assume that one comes from +the other, because of heuristics that follow downstream from consequentialism, such as noticing [[id:7456da20-684d-4de6-9235-714eaafb2440][IEEDI]] syndrome. + -- cgit