PHILOS 2TT3 Lecture Notes - Deontological Ethics, Primum Non Nocere
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September 20: claims moral life is messy and complicated, universal principles are not necessarily applicable, utilitarianism oversimplifies the moral life, giving it one goal, one principle to solve all, oversimplifies the relationships found between people. Different relationship gives rise to various obligations and responsibilities. Utilitarianism looks and treats others all as beneficiaries, in one sort of relationship: morality is not always forward-looking; only looks forward in the sense of consequences. Criticisms of kant: right/wrong not inferred because it falls under a rule capable of universalization. Universalization does not necessitate morality: not only one motive has value. There is more to morality than kant claims, according to ross: untrue that rules don"t admit of exception. Strict rule without exception does not allow for flexibility that to ross, seems. Ethical pluralism: to be wrong in and of itself: pluralistic, mixed, deontological theory of obligation. Several irreducible moral guides and rules that ought to guide our behaviours.