How can a formal principle of value theory provide practical ethical guidance?

Workshop # 13, Applied Ethics, Series 11,
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 11.30 am UK, 6.30 am NY.

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The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email.

THIS WEEK: John McDowel argued that principles of right action in virtue theory would be ‘uncodifiable’. And Susan Wolf doubts that a supreme moral principle is as important as supposed. Utilitarianism is hailed as a practical philosophy, but is assailed by problems of quantification. I myself have proposed the affirmation of value as both an ethical principle and a trajectory for human existence. But how can such principles provide practical ethical guidance? In this workshop, I explain how such a principle can be recognised intuitively and philosophically, and then applied in practical life situations. Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Ch. 2, Scn. vii.