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I have never heard of a version of consequentialism that explictly says that consequences include non-actual possibilities. The idea seems to coincide with virtue theory in a way that is a bit suspicious. Virtue ethics make it very easy to make judgements about agents, since that is what it is all about. Consequentialism has difficulty , because of moral luck. But is judging an agent by their propensity-to-produce-desirable-consequences really different from judging them by their virtue … or is it just a misleading re-naming of virtue?
I think virtue ethics and the “policy consequentialism” I’m gesturing at are different moral frameworks that will under the right circumstances make the same prescriptions. As I understand it, one assigns moral worth to outcomes, and the actions it prescribes are determined updatelessly. Whereas the other assigns moral worth to specific policies/policy classes implemented by agents, without looking at the consequences of those policies.
I have never heard of a version of consequentialism that explictly says that consequences include non-actual possibilities. The idea seems to coincide with virtue theory in a way that is a bit suspicious. Virtue ethics make it very easy to make judgements about agents, since that is what it is all about. Consequentialism has difficulty , because of moral luck. But is judging an agent by their propensity-to-produce-desirable-consequences really different from judging them by their virtue … or is it just a misleading re-naming of virtue?
I think virtue ethics and the “policy consequentialism” I’m gesturing at are different moral frameworks that will under the right circumstances make the same prescriptions. As I understand it, one assigns moral worth to outcomes, and the actions it prescribes are determined updatelessly. Whereas the other assigns moral worth to specific policies/policy classes implemented by agents, without looking at the consequences of those policies.