PHIL 230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Consequentialism
1 Apr 2019
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Fill in the blank: mill believes that generosity is a better motive than greed because ___. It is a pleasure promoting disposition (over time: mill believes that rights are defined as ___, moral truths that value defends . Notes: review of mills theory of rights, definition stage. A right = something society ought to protect/guarantee: justification stage. "if the objector goes on to ask " in book. Is the guarantee (with all of its costs) worth it for happiness overall: justification stage in focus. It helps to think of justification stage as involving a comparison of worlds: examples: General: should we guarantee the right to property, yes, because the guarantee (even with costs) is better for happiness than not having it, pg. Example: there was no clear majority for granting women the right to vote at the time, even among women.
