PHIL 3020 Lecture : Consequatalism.docx
15 Dec 2013
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Actions are determined by the consequence, which determine if its right or wrong, ex. utility, pleasure or happiness is determines the right or wrongness of an action. Premise 1: suffering and death from lack of food, shelter, and medical care are bad. Premise 2: if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything of comparable moral importance, we ought, morally, to do it. The uncontroversial appearance of the principle just stated is deceptive. If it were acted upon, even in its qualified form, our lives, our society, and our world would be fundamentally changed. For the principle takes, firstly, no account of proximity or distance. It makes no moral difference whether the person i can help is a neighbor"s child ten yards from me or a bengali whose name i shall never know, ten thousand miles away.
