PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Universalizability, Kantianism, Contract Killing
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Acts that you have an obligation to perform that are morally required, that you morally ought to do. An act is obligatory, if it"s the only act to do, it would be wrong not to do it. Happiness = absence of pain and intended pleasure. The rightness and wrongness of an act depends on its consequences. An act is right only if it brings out the best possible/ maximizes the best consequences available to you. Total good produced - total bad produced. Comes down to which will bring you the best consequences. Depends on the total amount of good and bad. Goodness of consequences is determined by how much happiness is produced. How much pleasure and pain is produced. An action is either permissible or impermissible. Takes into account everyone that will be affected. Everyone"s happiness matters in the same way. Act"s utility = sum of all the pleasure it produces and subtract all the pain it produces.
