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

Workshop # 19, Normative Action, Series 12, (S11.13)
This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY.
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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.