Are Ethics Professors Particularly Good People? No More Than Most Of Us, And They Don’t Really Try Any Harder (That’s A Good Thing)

In an essay titled “Cheeseburger ethics,” Eric Schwitzgebel argues, “We – most of us – actually aim at mediocrity. The cheeseburger ethicist is perhaps only unusually honest with herself about this. We aspire to be about as morally good as our peers … B+ on the great moral curve of white middle-class college-educated North Americans. Let others get the As.”