[HN Gopher] Finding Virtue in the Virtual
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Finding Virtue in the Virtual
Author : freddyym
Score : 14 points
Date : 2021-03-21 22:01 UTC (1 days ago)
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| ReadEvalPost wrote:
| Wonderful essay. I strongly recommend _After Virtue_ as an
| introductory text to why virtue ethics is so important in the
| modern world. I find it very unfortunate that telos, the end-
| directed nature of people and our tools, has been wiped out by a
| focus on Darwinian evolutionary explanations.
| nine_k wrote:
| Nature does not have telos, but human creations very much do!
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| Evolution does not contradict teleology, BTW; you can use
| genetic algorithms in an attempt to reach a well-defined
| outcome.
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