tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post2939144971041072886..comments2023-10-24T04:29:23.693-06:00Comments on Atheist Ethicist: Morality at the Moment of DecisionAlonzo Fyfehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-66801936379730425142007-05-22T04:56:00.000-06:002007-05-22T04:56:00.000-06:00borofkinDesire utilitarianism is a virtue ethics i...<B>borofkin</B><BR/><BR/>Desire utilitarianism is a virtue ethics in the Humean (reference: David Hume) sense.<BR/><BR/>Hume argued that morality is primarily concerned with character traits, and character traits are to be evaluated in terms of:<BR/><BR/>(1) pleasing to self<BR/>(2) useful to self<BR/>(3) pleasing to othres<BR/>(4) useful to others.<BR/><BR/>Desire utilitarianism says that the primary object of moral evaluations are maleable desires, and that the criteria for evaluating desires are:<BR/><BR/>(1) Directly fulfills the desires of self.<BR/>(2) Indirectly fulfills the desires of self.<BR/>(3) Directly fulfills the desires of others.<BR/>(4) Indirectly fulfills the desires of others.Alonzo Fyfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05687777216426347054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16594468.post-85180803093665195442007-05-21T22:33:00.000-06:002007-05-21T22:33:00.000-06:00Thanks for your response, Alonzo. I've been readin...Thanks for your response, Alonzo. I've been reading your blog for a number of months and find your work enlightening and thought-provoking. <BR/><BR/>I'm interested in the relationship between desire utilitarianism and virtue ethics. It seems to me that the idea of promoting "good desires" and thinking about "the act that a person with good desires would perform" is like saying "act in the way that a virtuous person would act". Of course, desire utilitarianism defines what a good desire is, whereas this seems to be a limitation of virtue ethics approaches.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02807740289271448897noreply@blogger.com