PHIL 1103 : Morality and Meaning in the Natural World (Philosophy)

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Consequentialism in practice: whether people ought to be punished depends on whether it has good results, it doesn"t matter if they deserve punishment. Consequentialism says that we should kill george because that would have the better consequences: another way of putting the claim that consequentialism rejects constraints is to say that according to consequentialism, the ends justify the means. Well-being: well-being is happiness, a person"s level of well-being is how good their life is for them, a theory of well-being explains what makes a person"s life good for that person. Hedonism: hedonist theory of well-being: your level of well-being is determined solely by the balance of pleasures and pains in your life. Nothing else is relevant: pleasures are any king of enjoyable experiences or feelings, pains are any kind of unpleasant experiences or feelings. Sensory pleasure would decrease stoicus" well-being: objection two, the experience machine: a machine that can give us any experience that we want.

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