PEDS401 Lecture Notes - Consequentialism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS401
• Professor: Judy Davidson

Document Summary

The issue of performance enhancer use in sport is much more complex (this is probably true), involving many more variables, to be able to effectively make this kind of consequentialist claim. We need to know what a consequentialist claim. According to the article, this means that decisions are made based on the outcome. The derivative moral judgement is logically derived however it is tied up with issues of prudence that occlude the morality of the judgement. Therefore, steroid are unnatural so they are immoral. However it isn"t the prudential claim that occlude the morality of the judgment. This is an example of a general moral principle, and the resulting factual claim, is clear, consistent and logical. In the article callahan says how natural and unnatural are deeply flawed concepts, so this one is no good. The general moral principle and factual claim are mired in definitional opaqueness, making an ethical deliberation difficult.