PHIL 100 Lecture 16: Lecture 16
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What it means to affirm a moral theory. You can account for your own wants and happiness, but it doesn"t have any greater weight than anyone else"s. Trolley example: act: push a person on the tracks; kill one. If i can prevent something bad from happening, w/out sacrificing something of comparable moral importance, then i ought to do so. Suffering due to a lack of primary goods is bad. Art (in the long run) is of comparable moral importance to some lives right now. Weakens comparable moral importance (cmi) to moral significance. If having to kill in order to save someone"s life, it would be supported under the ideal moral principle. Doesn"t take into account proximity or distance and not based on fairness. Cause-neutral [means-neutral]; no focus on anything but the actual amount of suffering. Some factors that affect our life are morally arbitrary. Against (unjustifiable) partial obligations (direct efforts to doing the most good possible)
