PHILOS 2YY3 Chapter Ethics of Actions: Reading 15 – Ross "What makes right acts right?"
3 Apr 2018
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Reading 15 ross what makes right acts right? . Says that optimal consequences have nothing to do with moral rightness or wrongness. Rather, we have intuitive knowledge of rightness and wrongness in terms of action- guiding principles: not absolutes (like kant"s principles) they can be possibly overridden by more binding moral duties. Moral principle = prima facie duties: while their intrinsic value is not dependent on circumstance, their application is. R: pleasure is not the only thing in life that we think good in itself. We have to substitute productive of the greatest pleasure" for productive of the greatest good". He wants to show that the maximum good is not what makes all right actions right. We do not only fulfill our actions because we feel as if we ought to do so but also because we look at the consequences of fulfilling such action and see that the good outweighs the bad.
