Marginalium

A note in the margins

October 18, 2020

Marginalium

My commentary on something from elsewhere on the web.

Moral psychology hasn’t moved much in recent decades. It is the common academic position that we should attempt to teach children some admixture of Aristotelian virtue ethics and more recent ideas about utilitarianism. Unfortunately these two things are impossible to measure, and impossibly to measure how well people are applying these ideas. So it’s exciting when we think we’ve gotten a little better at it.


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