PHIL 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 72: Consequentialism
15 May 2017
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Answer (cid:498)it is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out will(cid:499) of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good. After all, we often say that things such as health, friends and giving money to the poor are good. The health of a serial killer is a bad thing, and so are friends when they give bad advice. Even helping the poor can be bad if someone does it . Even happiness is not good unqualifiedly for kant: After all, bad people may do evil things in order to be happy (the way they understand happiness) For kant, things work in the opposite direction than for the. Utilitarians: (cid:498)a good will seems to constitute the indispensable condition of our very worthiness to be happy(cid:499) By investigating what makes a will good his (cid:498)a good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes.
