Related to this, curious to know what you think of Philip Kitcher’s idea (in The Ethical Project and Moral Progress) that we should do away with the search for an all-encompassing theory of morality and instead focus on how moral progress was made in the past and try to mimic it. He argues this on the grounds that high level theories of ethics haven’t had much of an effect in practice on how people and countries act.
Related to this, curious to know what you think of Philip Kitcher’s idea (in The Ethical Project and Moral Progress) that we should do away with the search for an all-encompassing theory of morality and instead focus on how moral progress was made in the past and try to mimic it. He argues this on the grounds that high level theories of ethics haven’t had much of an effect in practice on how people and countries act.