PHIL 1550 Study Guide - Final Guide: Deontological Ethics, Consequentialism

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1550
• Professor: Devin Shaw

Document Summary

Good and bad: god and bad are agent neutral and independent about judgments of right and wrong, a judgment about good or bad consequences good or bad states of affairs is made independent of whether it is right or wrong, good or better means that it maximizes the most good, an action is right if and only if nothing the agent could do would have better results (29), actions are chosen according to be expected consequences, this is because ethical theories are prospective and action guiding (30). 30 31: the good attaches to particular individuals (human beings or other sentient creatures) there is no good or bad beyond this, the good is additive, each person"s good is equally valuable: as bentham put it, each person counts as one, and no one as more than one (31), the right course of action brings the most good.