“Beneficentric Virtue Ethics” by Richard Y Chappell

This is a link post. I've previously suggested a constraint on warranted hostility: the target must be ill-willed and/or unreasonable. Common hostility towards either utilitarianism or effective altruism seems to violate this constraint. I could see someone reasonably disagreeing with the former view, and at least abstaining from the latter project, but I don’t think either could reasonably be regarded as inherently ill-willed or unreasonable. Perhaps the easiest way to see this is to just imagine a beneficentric virtue ethicist who takes scope-sensitive impartial benevolence to be the central (or even only) virtue. Their imagined virtuous agent seems neither ill-willed nor unreasonable. But the agent thus imagined would presumably be committed to the principles of effective altruism. On the stronger version, where benevolence is the sole virtue, the view described is just utilitarianism by another name.[1] The Good-Willed Utilitarian A lot of my research is essentially about why an ideally [...] ---Outline:(01:00) The Good-Willed Utilitarian(03:09) Effective Altruism and Good WillThe original text contained 4 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: May 16th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/A7kDruJ4orqZw4uFv/beneficentric-virtue-ethics --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.