PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture 7: Ethics - Lecture 7

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHILOS 2YY3
• Professor: James Sikkema

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Determine the value of each pain produced by the same (viz. Establish the value of any distinguishable pleasure produced by the proposed act (viz. Establish the fecundity of the act to produce pleasure and pain. Sum up value of pleasures on one side and pains on the other. The difference between the two will indicate what is good and the better course of action. With reference to the individual metric) individual metric) If what is good is reducible to what is pleasurable, than the utilitarian should plug in to the experience machine. & result machines) is their living our lives for us. Perhaps what we desire is to live ourselves, in contact with reality (and this machine cannot do that for us) Intrinsically valuable) do not admit of any proof beyond people actually and invariably do seem to desire them (162)