23. Base Camp for Mount Ethics (2022)

By Nick Bostrom




Draft version 0.9

Abstract:
New theoretical ideas for a big expedition in metaethics.

Read the full paper:
https://nickbostrom.com/papers/mountethics.pdf

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Outline:

(00:17) Metametaethics/preamble

(02:48) Genealogy

(09:41) Metaethics

(21:30) Value representors

(26:56) Moral motivation

(30:02) The weak

(33:25) Hedonism

(41:38) Hierarchical norm structure and higher morality

(55:30) Questions for future research

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