Response to "Moral Education and Non-Utilitarian Ideals" by John Wilson
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11575/jet.v38i2.52644Abstract
In the hands of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, ethics
focused on the question of how to live, or how to live well.
The Utilitarians and Kantians, the modern moral
philosophers, have hijacked the subject, and have given it
a new set of preoccupations. For one thing, they have
entrenched a very narrow conception of ethical experience
... they have tended to take a very abstract view of what
matters morally about and to human beings. The
satisfaction of rational preferences, the more the better,
matters crucially in utilitarianism and is the basis of
moral obligations; the joint and mutual promotion of
autonomy matters crucially to Kantians. Obligations
based on these values can conflict very sharply with the
requirements of living well. ( Sorell, 2000, p. 32)
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