PHIL 3377 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Epicurus, Jeremy Bentham, Ethical Egoism
27 Sep 2014
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Preliminaries what normative ethics is: normative ethical theory: concerned with ground-level questions about how one ought to live, how one should live: long-term actions, policies, plans, things value, care about, and concern. Eg, factors make the action prohibited, permissible, obligatory: foundations, explanation, justification of the factors from part one ( teleological, deontological, kagan doesn"t care about virtue terms but deontic terms. What makes good: outcome: the effects of action, upshot: everything that is the case because of my action. He tries to minimize displeasure, always trying to get amount of pleasure is foolish for him. The wise person stresses simpler pleasure, which makes it easy to avoid displeasure) Value: not just structure of mind, but claim about the good. Ethical: morally right, because kagan is a consequentialist. Welfare: well-being consists of getting pleasure and avoiding pain: mental state view of welfare: all that intrinsically matters for determining one"s level of well-being are the various experience one have.
