PHIL 1550 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bertha Wilson, Julian Assange, Applied Ethics
14 Oct 2015
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I will refer to the case of a pupil of mine, who sought me out in the follow circumstances. But he, at this moment, had the choice between going to england to join the free french. Forces or of staying near his mother and helping her to live. He fully realized that this woman lived only for him and that his disappearance-or perhaps his death-would plunge her into despair. At the same time, he was hesitating between two kinds of morality, on the one side of morality of sympathy, of personal devotion and, on the other side, a morality of wider scope. For kantian ethic says: never regard another as a means, but always as an end. Very well, if i remain with my mother, i shall be regarding her as the end and not as a means, but by the same token i am in. Sartre"s case is interesting for applied ethics, here are some of the reasons:
