PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Consequentialism, Fallacy
4 Jul 2016
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The utilitarian standard is not the agent"s own greatest happiness, but the greatest amount of happiness altogether . One might think that we have greater obligations to some people than we do to others. Ex: one might think that a person does not act wrongly who shows a preference for his or her children or his or her parents. If my own happiness lies in something else, why may i not give that the preference? . Conscience: a feeling in our own mind; a pain more or less intense, attendant on violation of duty . Mills argument for acting morally: by acting morally, you make everyone including yourself happier. It is rational to want to be happier. 2: so (c) it is rational to act morally. Imagine that two freedom ghters have been captured. They are held in separate cells, unable to communicate with each other. They are pressed to confess their crimes.
