PHIL 2020 : Exam 1
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Philosophy 2020 (section 2) ethics professor husain sarkar. Tuesdays & thursdays: 10:30-11:50 a. m: required texts, george sher, editor. 978-0-415-78231-9 (this book is on reserve in the library. : peter singer, the most good you can do: how effective altruism is changing ideas about living. Isbn: 978-0-300-18207-5: immanuel kant, groundwork of the metaphysics of morals, 4:428-4:31. (this book is available in the library as an electronic resource. , the aim of the course: This course will cover some pretty fundamental problems in moral philosophy. We shall begin with the famous ethical doctrine known as utilitarianism (in john rawls"s exquisite representation of it). Peter singer, who is a utilitarian, shows in his famous article and book, the most good. You can do, that our obligations are as inescapable as they are serious. Next, we shall examine a withering criticism of utilitarianism by bernard williams. Williams"s criticism is based on the claim that utilitarianism rides rough shod over our integrity.
