PHI 192 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 7 - Trolley problem, Consequentialism
20 Sep 2018
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Well-being research - role in shaping the details of theories about moral rightness or wrongness. Even if well-being is not the only goal to be promoted, it"s surely one morally good goal. Consequentialism - the rightness of actions is determined by their consequences. Kill by action or inaction - but either way only choice is to kill. Killing is not okay but letting die is okay (?) Choice of who to kill = kill least amount of people possible. Says that act a is right if and only if a accords with a rule of conduct r. Would thou shall not kill rule promote more intrinsic good. Sign up and basically for all of the people signed up, increases peoples chances of living a long happy life. Number comes up - you get picked to save a life. If you need something, there is good chance other person called to give life upon you.
