PHIL 3020 Lecture 9: York University PHIL 3020 Ethics (2017 Summer) - Lecture on Taurek
10 Oct 2018
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If one can permissibly act to save one against five because one happens to be partial to the interests of the one, then the one is not morally required to give the drug to the five. One may permissibly act to give the drug to the one and save the one, if one happens to be partial to the interests of the one against the five. , one is not morally required to save the five. Taurek"s response: utilitarian reasoning is outrageous: we would not ask you to die to make possible the net happiness realized in the life of any one of us five. For you might suppose that you could realize as much in your own lifetime. David as well (as opposed to the five) If the five, each individually, does not have claim over the drug, it"s hard to see how the group of 5 has any claim over the drug.
