PHIL 1175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: No Type, Deontological Ethics, Marginal Utility
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Base right/wrong on what happens after you act (how hindsight is 20/20) Some actions are usually wrong, but not always. Pre-moral (not considering right v wrong, not considering morality of actions) Does matter how you get it, as long as you get it. Answer: we have more complicated pleasures than that. Objection: hedonism is a doctrine fit for swine (reducing to animal pleasures) Bentham thinks pleasures are based on quantity alone. If a competent judge prefers pleasure a to pleasure b in such a way that they would not give up . Any amount of b , then a is the higher one. How the more you have of something, the value of it decreases. Utilitarianism asks us to care for strangers and family alike. If everyone does it then everyone is increasing happiness. *cannot say bc it violates personal rights bc that would contradict. We have to have justice bc it maximizes happiness if you do the right thing.
