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A consequentialist assesses the ultimate worth of all the various features of our ethical lives according to whether or not they bring about some specific intrinsic good or goods that the consequentialist judges to be of primary value. All the various valuable features of our lives have their ultimate value with respect to how they [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Self-Sacrifice’
My Perfectionistic, Egoistic AND Universalistic, Indirect Consequentialism (And Contrasts With Other Kinds)
July 25th, 2010 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Atheistic Ethics, Atheistic Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Contemporary Ethics, Ethical Pluralism, Ethical Pluralism, Ethics, Ethics, Featured, Metaethics, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Moral Psychology, Morality, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophical Ethics, Teleology, Teleology, Virtues, Virtues 
Tags: Act Consequentialism, Act Utilitarianism, Consequentialism, Direct Consequentialism, Hedonism, Hedonistic Consequentialism, Indirect Consequentialism, Kant, Perfectionism, Perfectionistic Consequentialism, Pleasure, Practical Contradictions, Rule Consequentialism, Rule Utilitarianism, Self-Sacrifice, Utilitarianism 
15 Comments »Maximal Self-Realization In Self-Obliteration: The Existential Paradox of Heroic Self-Sacrifice
May 31st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Below I am reposting a blog post I wrote which essentially attempts to defend the paradoxical idea that dying in acts of honorable courage could be consistent with an ethics that locates one’s primary good in one’s own flourishing. If, as I think, the highest ethics is one in which we maximally realize our power, [...]
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