Ethics and Values / Unit 6 Ethics 268 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Conflict Problem
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The idea
The conflict problem: honesty and kindness can demand opposite acts in one case, and virtue ethics offers no fixed ranking to break the tie.
In practice
A friend asks what you think of the memoir she spent five years writing. The honest sentence and the kind one are different sentences.
Your place on the trail
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