PHL 201 Lecture 14: PHL 201 - Week 6 - Lecture 14: Ethics
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Phl 201 - week 6 - lecture 14: ethics. Example: pipeline going through sacred territory of native americans. Our feelings are our moral intuition (thought) We must start thinking before we act. It"s morally permissible to exchange sex for money. Defending the innocent is a moral obligation. No govt. has the right to kill its citizens. It"s morally permissible to defend one"s religion with violence. We have moral intuitions - initial judgements about the rightness or wrongness of actions/persons. Moral intuitions are the result of upbringing and culture - they aren"t necessarily reliable. When moral intuition conflict, we need moral principles to solve the supposed conflict. Can save their life by flipping the switch and merging to another track, but would kill 1 person tied to that track. Heavy weight will stop the train and save 5 lives. Must push the obese guy next to you to stop the train.
