PHL244H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hedonism, Consequentialism, Deontological Ethics
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Central questions with main issues and you answer with the key concepts (few sentences) Then a bit where you get a passage and you describe what the passage is about, it"s. No augustine on the exam, everything else is fair game. Motivated what was russo did and we contrasted it with hume. Hume attaches importance to justice: the mill has a section all about justice, hume regards justice as a set or rules and paradigm that are occasionally with promises and properties. Said it requires attention since it involves everyone. Justice is a system that promotes welfare in a highly indirect way. Sometimes though these systems do more harm then good. The rules of property and inheritance does not act fairly to the rich (the rich get richer: the system of justice has utility. Hume still thinks justice is the way to go cause it eventually helps.