[Philosophy 1020] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (12 pages long!)
6 Feb 2017
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Consequentialism- the goodness and badness, rightness and wrongness, of an action (policy, law, etc. ) is determined by the goodness or badness (etc. ) of its consequences. Utilitarianism is then consequentialism with a definition of right and wrong. Utilitarianism may permit, or even encourage, treating others as instruments: the response to this objection is that it actually may harm the community to treat individuals as instruments/means. Good and bad come first, they play down the foundation for what is right and wrong, The good is conceptually prior to the right. What is right is based on what is good. A sentence is analytically true if it is true by virtue of meanings of its words. A sentence is synthetically true if it is true for reasons other than the meaning of its words (often emperically) How do we think about criminal law: there is punishment for attempted crime.
