SOC SCI H1E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Socratic Dialogue, Sentenced, Socratic Method
11 Apr 2019
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Lecture 3 the good life 2. 1: socrates. What we should do irrespective of our preferences. If you want to do heroin, that doesn"t mean you should do heroin. Utilitarianism is an ethics based on what we do want. Do what maximizes utility across a community. Reflects what the members of some community actually values. If i like pain, then hurting me could be considered increasing my utility. necessarily want we should want ) Bentham uses utility to develop a story about what we should do ( but not. Plato will offer us an ethics of what we should want. Just including on our list of preferences a few other things we care about. Should these things really be used to reflect what we should want. We don"t actually know what will make us happiest so someone could say that you should change preferences because your preferences aren"t actually your preferences .
