Philosophy 2078F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Rule Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill, Act Utilitarianism
18 Jan 2017
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Ethical theory and adjustments for the digital realm. This week (and probably next week too): the four dominant ethical theories, utilitarianism, ka(cid:374)t(cid:859)s deo(cid:374)tolog(cid:455, virtue ethics, feminist ethics/an ethic of care, matthews internet ethics, the 10 commandments of computer ethics. A (set of) rule(s) or a principle(s) or a norm(s) intended to guide and/or evaluate freely chosen human behaviour, rules concerned primarily with our actions toward other humans: general guidelines for behaviour. Guidance= before you behave: evaluating our behaviour. Evaluation = after you behave: freely chosen human behaviour. External freedoms nobody is making you lie (external physical force [eg. gun to your head]) Right/wrong way to act given that we live collectively. A moral norm/rule/principle usually assumes the form of a statement about how we ought to act, or what we should believe. So the rules are normative statements and as such they imply the assertion of some value, a value that justifies the (cid:374)o(cid:396)(cid:373).
