POLS 220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trolley Problem, John Stuart Mill, Effective Altruism
8 Dec 2017
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The athlete should follow the advice of a doctor or training he who has the relevant expertise. Again in the republic he made the same argument about the ship and a captain. So, what the suggestion made is that would should listen to expertise in the relevant field. What we"re debating is: is it moral or immoral for socrates to leave prison. We should listen to someone with moral expertise. If i"m in canada something is just here but in another country maybe not. For example if with went back to the american south in the early. Maybe a wise person who had a slave would say yes this is just. But would we say that person has moral expertise. S: sam harris says: ted bundy and the dali lama. Obviously there must e some sort of moral expertise. T: neuroscientist and professional atheistic right, and bundy is a serial killer, a sociopath.
