Rational Ethics: Introduction, Part 3

brilliant!

Honestly, I think you should dedicate to write books about these topics :-D

Excellent series! I agree that virtue ethics is more effective, and ultimately more motivating, than ethics based simply on following rules. Rule-based ethics also inevitably stumbles when faced with situations that are simply too complex to be neatly interpreted by any set of rules concise enough for a human mind to simultaneously grasp.

It seems like what you define as ethics can be summed up as "optimal general method of achieving long term happiness".
Which is a lot less confusing term than "ethics" since it doesn't have deontological and theological baggage.

I don't see what value there is in keeping the word "ethics".
Though the content has value. So I give you 5 stars.

In fairness, it does not appear that what you have laid forth can be properly critiqued. It is simply incomplete. I downloaded the txt to be sure.

You did not define what a Meta-Virtue is.
You did not establish why "logic and honesty" are valid virtues.
How do you establish a valid virtue?
Since eudaimonia is a "state that requires constant maintenance", should I assume that the more often a person experiences eudaimonia (happiness), then the more moral or virtuous that person is?

I feel I've been watching intellectual greatness at work!

Your essay is one of the best I've read, EVER.

"XOmniverse wrote the article himself" - riighhhttttt

lmao

If you could not figure that out from the videos, then you can download the article from the link in the information box. In there you will see that the author of the article is XOmniverse (his real name is Shawn).

mmm in that case i will attach a related video

Does that count as ethics then? If all you're doing is studying how people can become happy, then you're still using an "is", and not an "ought".

TimerTwin: Any successful bridging of the is-ought gap effectively makes all ought statements a type of is statement. The basic premise behind moral realism is that moral claims are factual claims about reality.

If we, by nature, DO pursue and want happiness (as a matter of fact), then it follows that we ought to do certain things if they will achieve that goal better than the other options.