PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Rule Utilitarianism
16 May 2018
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• Rule utilitarianism: my relationship with my mother is of a certain sort, if everyone
behaves this way towards their mother, this is going to be better overall
o Allows for breaking of their rules
o Breaking of this rule, doesn’t destroy this and produes this result
• Actual ontological status to good and evil (they both exist)
o Nothing really good or evil, there is just a will to power
• Noble class is above/beyond this, so in that way they are beyond good and evil
o What’s good is what the powerful is apale of alling good
o Therefore, will to power is viewed as being good
• Slaves, who even though they are incapable of being powerful, they view things of being
good, but they themselves could never been that good
o Some of those slaves, because they cant be powerful leads to slave revolt →
invert terms of good and evil
o All the things that I cant be are bad, and the things I can be are good
• Being able to affirm live – will to power
o Feeling of gaining power and exerting power and being powerful
o When you are powerful, you can follow your own path to gain more power
knowing that no one will stop you
o This is what the best life would look like
• What ought I to do?
o If you do what you ought to do, you will live a good life
o You do what you can do to gain power and exert power and get away with it
(noble class)
• What does the best life look like?
• Justice is an idea of slave morality
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