PHIL 1050 Lecture Notes - Robert Nozick, Liberal Democracy, Lie
4 Dec 2012
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Moral rules sometimes come into conflict with each other. Need to apply considerations about the greatest amount of happiness, using utilitarianism. One problem with utilitarianism, you have a duty to maximize happiness and one way to do this is to produce more happy people. Another problem with utilitarianism (presented by robert nozick) deals with happiness machine that would give you happy feelings and would not realize you"re attached to machine, but it would be only an illusion (ignorance. Full moral agents: moral rights and moral duties. Mere moral patients: moral rights, but not moral duties is bliss) and that ignores the access to the truth and the awareness of reality. Tend to think of animals for researching in a utilitarianism view. If no one owns an animal for example, there is no incentive to ensure that there is more productions and those species are declining in numbers. Relation between full moral agents and mere moral patients.
