PHILOS 3P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: J. Walter Thompson, Deontological Ethics, Consequentialism
14 Mar 2016
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Courage & duty: warrior should look forward to fighting a righteous war. Virtue warrior can say jwt sanctioned wars are morally good, perhaps obligatory. Detachment: fighting war in the right way could be a form of detachment/non-action/meditation, the primary goal that gives rise to other goals you have. Selflessness: straightforward in a sense of aggression, soldiers who fight are intervening to help others (people being protected), shows concern for others at least equally or even more than you value your own life. Fighting is not form of flourishing, risk of developing psychological disorders is significant. Virtue warriros: virtues outweigh vices or war and virtues of peace. Pacifists: fighting in just wars is vicious, vices are associated with fighting outweigh the virtues. Whether or not fighting of defensive wars will promote virtue and vice. Virtue warriors: aggression is vicious, if we do not fight we are promoting vice. Pacifists: fighting wars promotes vice, rise of militarism, downplaying of peaceful settlements.
