POL 3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Harm Principle, Quasi, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3102
• Professor: Robert Sparling

Document Summary

Bentham gave a principle of utilitarianism that mill didn"t entirely abandon. Judge policies on how much pleasure they produce. Basis for our claims of right and wrong. Offer an argument that fits in the larger philosophical tradition of what is the good. Consequences: believes he"s found a flaw in deontology, 1(cid:1007)(cid:1008): "all ka(cid:374)t sho(cid:449)s is that all (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:395)ue(cid:374)(cid:272)es (cid:374)o o(cid:374)e (cid:449)ould (cid:272)hoose to i(cid:374)(cid:272)u(cid:396). , has mill truly grasped the universalization principle, has no time for an a priori project. 134: "questions of ultimate ends are not amendable to direct proof. " Can"t get to foundations: can"t dig under the ends that we seek, point at which we can argue a more fundamental justification, *there isn"t really an ultimate justification beyond what we desire. 149: mill tells us that motive has nothing to do w/ the morality of our actions. 1(cid:1007)(cid:1011): "the (cid:272)(cid:396)eed (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h a(cid:272)(cid:272)epts g(cid:396)eatest happi(cid:374)ess p(cid:396)i(cid:374)(cid:272)iple a(cid:374)d (cid:449)(cid:396)o(cid:374)g as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. "