PHIL110B Chapter Notes -Bacon
20 Dec 2012
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The minds of other people, as well as the intensity of their desires, is not clearly evident (cannot be proved) ----> everyone is different and we don"t know how every person thinks/feels. We can never know either our objective duty or our objective long-run interest (p. 477) Objection to utilitarians: they make no room for justice. We ought to be just as well as generous (distributing happiness equally) To reward doing good was to encourage was to encourage such behaviour by example, and therefore, a likely way to increase the total happiness. 3rd criticism: inconsistency in considering differences of quality or kind, as well as of amount, among pleasures when determining what we out to do. Fundamental fact: we do not think some pleasures, such as that of cruelty, good at all. Promise-keeping doesn"t work because it only applies when the promise is public and would be seen/serve as an example to others.
