PHIL-360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Playstation 4, Act Utilitarianism
9 Nov 2016
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Chapter 10: utilitarianism, victimism, and the morality of killing [157] Difference between legally wrong and morally wrong we"re interested in morally wrong. Difference between prima facie morally wrong and all-in morally wrong. It"s not necessarily all-in morally wrong to kill in all circumstances (might be okay to kill in self-defense, or to kill a deranged mass-murderer), so the question we"re interested in is: Pluralists might say that there are different reasons why different deaths are wrong. But we"re going to be monists: that is, the same thing is wrong with each wrong killing. Hedonic act utilitarianism and the morality of killing [163] Utilitarianism: a consequentialist moral theory that is, a theory that says that what makes something write or wrong is its consequences only. Not the intentions behind it or the quality of the person doing it, just what happens after it. Also, for utilitarianism the consequences include for all affected, not just the primary people involved.
