PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Compatibilism, Consequentialism, Determinism
8 Jun 2016
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Mill utilitarianism: what brings the most happiness. Consequentialism what"s important in an ethical action is the consequences. Act in a way that tends to produce the most amount of happiness. Higher pleasure intellectual pleasures: music, math, science. Lower pleasure sensory pleasures: eating, drinking, sex. Incompatibilist: view that freedom and determinism are incompatible. Doesn"t take a stand on what the causes are. Compatibilist: we have free will and freedom is the ability to choose otherwise, and it says a person would do otherwise, if they choose otherwise. Causation is consistent with our freedom (no problem) Had i chosen otherwise, i would have acted otherwise. State of the world make our choices make our action. Libertarian: believes in a radical (deep) kind of freedom. Thinks we can make choices regardless of causal forces. An agent needs not only a would have done otherwise but a could have done otherwise . We are the first causes of our actions.
