Philosophy 2700F/G Lecture 10: philosophy lecture 10.docx
25 Feb 2015
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Prisoner"s dilemma: individual reason: you should rat each other out, but ideal outcome would be living up to your agreement, problem needs to be overcome by gauchier"s rules of morality o social contract theory, old view: monarchy needed for order, modern social contract theory: group cooperation for mutual benefit utilitarianism. Ex: lying to friend to avoid hurting his feelings = you have to always lie to avoid hurting his feelings in other situations: universalizability of reasons: adopting a maxim for one situation means you gotta do the same thing in another situation where the same reasons will arise, universal moral rule/principle: if you"re cool with a maxim, you and everyone else have to commit to maxim in any situation, if you can"t keep logical consistency, the maxim needs to be changed rational beings are different from irrational animals because we can act on basis of reason and change chain of cause and effect sometimes.
