PHIL 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Subjective Expected Utility, Felicific Calculus, Ethical Egoism
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His skeleton dressed in clothes still visible at ucl; sometimes even rolled out to dine there. One of the earliest proponents of animal rights. Number of philosophical answers to this question. It is our nature to use rationality, love someone, or seek unison with god. Determines how life should be carried on. Rational nature requires us to learn something. Biological features give implications into how society should be organized. Procedural approach: people settle on how to structure society. Ex. democracy is just as it expresses reasonable desires. Utilitarian approach: the just society is one in which happiness is maximized or equally distributed. Implications not just for individual choice, but for social choice. Every action whatsoever will appear to have ability to increase or decrease the party that is in question that will make it either acceptable or inacceptable. Aka: perform that act, from the act available that has the highest overall expected utility (for all, not just yourself)
