PHL 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Consequentialism
2 May 2020
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Consequentialism acts are morally right just because they maximize the amount of goodness in the world (goodness-badness) The greatest good for the greatest number not quite right. Death penalty how to morally justify it: backward looking some people deserve, forward looking deterrence, protective sorts of considerations consequentialism will care. Don"t kill innocents: broadens the moral community. Mill: rules of thumb based on past experiences: doctrine of swine utilitarianism. Mill: different qualities or rankings of pleasure: over demaning super-erogation (going above and beyond the call of duty, no room for special duties (radical impartially, no room for intrinsically wrong actions.
