ENGR 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Consequentialism

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Engineering
• Course: ENGR 201
• Professor: Govind Gopakumar

Document Summary

Ethical reasoning: agent the individual involved, action doing something, result consequences for the action. Aristotle"s virtue theory (focuses on agent: actions are only as ethical as person doing it. Deontological theory (focuses on action: actions are only as ethical as the nature of the action chosen. Immanuel kant"s duty ethics: each person has a duty, conflicts arise when following a universal principle may cause harm. For example, telling a "white lie is not acceptable , even if telling the truth causes harm. Consequentialism (results oriented: the ethical content of an action depends on the consequences produced, hypothetical obligation -> if you want result b, then do a. Mill"s utilitarianism: best outcome for maximum # of people.