PHLA11H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Consequentialism, Deontological Ethics
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The consequentialist point of view: they have no intrinsic moral significance. The various factors identified by these rules (promise keeping, truth telling, and so on) Ultimately, an act is right if and only if it will have the best results; morally speaking, nothing else matters. According to commonsense morality intuition, all other things being equal in a given act may be morally forbidden if it involves doing harm, even though it may have the best results. Deontologists believe in the existence of constraints, which erect moral barriers to the promotion of the good. They also believe in the priority of the right over the good . Example: imagine there are five patients, each of whom need a donor for different organs. Of the five patients, no one has the compatible tissue to act as a donor to the other. But here is chuck who has come into the hospital for some routine tests.
