PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Universalizability, Pre-Medical, Empiricism
27 Feb 2017
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Ross was consumed with the thought both utilitarianism and. The concern was that people don"t engage with moral decision- making in the way that the theories prescribe. In the 1930s ross took on the task of showing how badly d and u deal with how we actually reason morally. His argument has two components: that they are monistic, and that they are overly formalized. Monistic accounts of morality: both u and d suggest that all ethical considerations should be guided by a concern for a single moral value (utility/happiness and respect for autonomous agents, respectively), making them too narrow in scope. The theories inevitably run into situations where they are guided by the wrong thing (value). This is not to say that the values are inherently bad or wrong; rather, that they are not appropriate in every situation. This makes sense if you look to all of the values that normal people consider while making a decision.
