PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Empirical Evidence, A Priori And A Posteriori, Categorical Imperative
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If you are minister of health: only enough treatment for of individuals. Moral philosophy: a branch of philosophy that asks basic questions about the good life about what is better and worse, about whether there is any objective right and wrong. Specifically, it attempts to determine what actions are right and what are wrong. One is consequential in nature, and the other is deontological. Consequentialism: the position that people"s actions are right or wrong because of their consequences (their results) Consequential ethics is typically contrasted with deontological moral theories. Deontological ethics holds the view that results or consequences of actions are morally irrelevant. Instead, deontological theories pertain to duty or obligation. Utilitarianism is a highly influential moral theory that came to prominence in britain in the 18th and 19th centuries. Typically, jeremy bentham, a legal commentator and radial political reformer, is cited as being the founder of the moral theory known as utilitarianism.
