PHIL 2020 : PHIL 2020 Exam 1
Document Summary
It is prescriptive it tries to guide conduct. as abortion, animal rights, or euthanasia: normative, prescriptive vs descriptive ethics, meta-ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics. What you should know phil 2020 exam 1. Topic 1: philosophy, lexical definition of ethics, morality. Whether the action itself is good, not just the outcome of the action. Everyone"s happiness is on: if an action affects other people, it is morally relevant, basis of morality: pleasure pleasure and wrong actions maximize pain the same level. Greatest overall happiness > your personal happiness: act vs rule utilitarianism. Do we really have the relevant information? others and maximize total utility. If so, then it is morally permissible to act on this maxim. Duties to others no lying or promise-breaking: criticisms of deontology (murderer at the door, paradox of deontology, William"s criticism: consequentialist objections against universal rules, ex. Kind of a damned if you do, damned if you don"t: nozick"s paradox of deontology deontology appears to prohibit acts.
