PHIL 4 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Abortion, Fetus, Utilitarianism
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Objections to au ( act utilitarianism) in an earlier class: conflict promises, breaking a deathbed promise to your father. suppose that to make the terrorist confess, the fbi agent would need to torture the young children of the terrorist: au says torture the children, conflict 4. au says killing the large man in order to save the 5 is right thing to do: conflict 5. should a doctor harvest 5 organs of one healthy patient in order to save 5 others? i. au says maybe! ii. common sense says: hell no: the impracticality objection. It is too hard, maybe impossible, to figure out what the possible consequences of acts are, hence au is impractical: other objections: integrity. Au not only gives a theory of right action, but also how agents should think about moral decisions. Namely, agents should think about which actions maximize overall utility. personal commitments. Recall: utilitarianism advocated complete impartiality can"t give more weight to.
