PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dementia, Cutting In Line, Act Utilitarianism

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An action is right if it maximizes overall utility or minimizes overall disutility. Relationship problems: problems of justice in favor of justice to kill one person to save the lives of. Seems to license an innocent minority for the sake of the majority. If you can maximize utility for the rest of us, by killing one person, than it seems fair" therefore injustice because people should be sacrificed for the utilitarianism: theoretical problems. Au principle of utility right actions. Rule utilitarianism- principle of utility moral rules right actions explain which rules we ought to follow and which rules we shouldn"t. When it comes to actions, the right thing to do is to follow the rules. Pou determines whether a moral rules is genuine or spurious. A moral rule whose general observance tends to maximize utility or minimize disutility is genuine. Ru is able to escape problems that au has. No the ru seems to fetishize rules.

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