PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Stuart Mill, Felicific Calculus, Lactose Intolerance
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Examples of moral questions: the alzheimer"s case: my mother has been having memory issues for a number of years. Her neurologist has been telling her it is mild dementia. " her cognitive impairment and memory loss have worsened, and i recently met the neurologist without her. He felt we should not yet tell my mother, as that diagnosis has been her greatest fear and it would be too devastating [ ] i am uncomfortable keeping this terrible secret. Is it better to tell a loved one of the prognosis they fear, or is it more ethical to let them live in hopes that they have escaped it? - name withheld (new york times, june 22, 2012) According to utilitarianism: whether an act is right or wrong depends on it consequences, specifically, on how much pleasure and pain it produces. According to kantianism: whether an act is right or wrong depends on the kind of act that it is.