PHL273H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Virtue Ethics, Intellectual Disability, Consequentialism
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Singer focuses on equality between people/applicability- utilitarian: regan focuses on whether animals have rights and what this says about the moral status of animals. Singer: principle that humans are equal- moral progress- is widely accepted in society. What ethical principle underlies the belief that all humans are equal: rawls moral personality view: humans have sense of justice/moral personality that makes us equal- within the sphere of ethics. We can only reject these extreme things if equality doesn"t depend on possessing certain traits. Interests: avoiding pain/negative experiences, achieving positive experiences (very utilitarian, what happens is securing happiness and avoiding pain: the ultimate moral reason for relieving pain is undesirability of pain, pain is intrinsically bad, pleasure is intrinsically good. It doesn"t matter whose interests are at stake, can"t prioritize anyone"s interests. Making ethical judgments: must take into account all effected and leave aside personal/self interested perspectives, that"s what it means to make an ethical judgment.
