Timeline for Russell and consequentialism
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| Sep 24, 2023 at 9:56 | vote | accept | Starckman | ||
| Feb 27, 2023 at 11:40 | comment | added | user64708 | See also this question about another apparent contradiction in Bertrand Rusell's thought. | |
| Feb 27, 2023 at 11:39 | answer | added | user64708 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 15:04 | comment | added | Frank | @Starckman Indeed, isn't there a sense in which you could look at the facts of the consequences of your actions, and use that as a consequentialist? | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 9:09 | comment | added | Starckman | @Conifold thank you very much | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 8:42 | comment | added | Conifold | The name was not around, biases, wishful thinking and manipulation for this or that purpose are as old as sin. Tacitus, for example, wrote c. 100 AD:"The histories of Tiberius, Gaius, Claudius, and Nero, while they were in power, were falsified through terror, and after their death were written under the irritation of a recent hatred. Hence my purpose is to relate a few facts... without anger or passion (sine ira et studio)". The maxim of intellectual honesty in pursuit of truth is also classical, as one can see from Plato's dialogs. | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 8:26 | comment | added | Starckman | @Conifold But the post-truth idea didn’t exist when Russell made this statement. So to what was he referring? | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 8:23 | comment | added | Conifold | INSS, Philosophy of Post-Truth. The quote is from Russell's 1959 BBC interview. The immediately preceding sentences are "I should like to say two things, one intellectual and one moral. The intellectual thing I should want to say to them is this:" This quote is not about morality. | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 8:10 | comment | added | Starckman | @Conifold What is “ it is the "post-truth" of pop-postmodernism”? To what did Russell refer in this famous quote about what is factually true? | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 7:58 | comment | added | Conifold | How does it contradict consequentialism? Ethics is about what is morally right, not what is factually true. Twisting the facts for "beneficent social effects" is not consequentialism, it is the "post-truth" of pop-postmodernism. Russell also criticized James for "truth is what works" motto, and that did not contradict consequentialism either. | |
| Feb 26, 2023 at 7:43 | history | asked | Starckman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |