MCD BIO 60 Lecture Notes - Lecture 99: Kantian Ethics, Categorical Imperative, Blood Transfusion
1 Sep 2016
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Two mutually exclusive things cannot be simultaneously true: the truth or falsity of a claim cannot depend on one"s culture. It is impossible to measure something that we do not know. It is impossible to measure the pleasure and pain of a consequence (something we don"t know) and thus acquire a measure of what action results in the greatest pleasure and least pain. It is impossible to measure the pleasure or pain of a consequences without knowing what the consequence is. It is impossible without this measurement of pain or pleasure to decide what the morally correct option is. No morally permissible category objection to utilitarianism: utilitarianism claims that an action is morally required if it maximizes pleasure and minimizes pain to yourself and others in the aggregate. Everything becomes a moral decision which affects the usability of utilitarianism. All people can feel pleasure and pain (egalitarian). d. ii.
