PHIL 120W Study Guide - Final Guide: Moral Skepticism, Universalizability, Trolley Problem
15 Apr 2014
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You are young, happy, excited about life and work. A brown envelope comes for you in the mail: you are summoned to donate your vital organs to save two people in need. Survival lottery involved killing innocent people, and killing innocent people is always wrong. The trolley problem: philosophical thought-experiment designed to question moral significance: a trolley is running out of control along a set of tracks where crew of 5 is working. They will all die when trolley hits them. Two aims of theory are to provide an account for the nature of right and wrong in action and to provide a decision procedure that individual moral agents can deploy in situations of moral choice. Pleasure and free from pain are the only things desirable as ends. This is true even though higher pleasures are harder to attain and we often go unsatisfied.
