PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - General Idea, Homeless Shelter, Consequentialism
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The attempt to understand the nature of morality and what it requires of us. First we look at attempts at theories of morality. Moral theories: attempt to explain, at the most general and fundamental level, what differentiates right actions from wrong actions. Whether an act is wright or wrong, depends on its consequences. It depends on how much pleasure and pain the act producesand how this compares t o the other actions available to the agent. It is wrong because she does not treat her with the respect she deserves as an autonomous human being. Attempt to tell us facts about morality with these theories. Talking about specific moral issues: particular cases. Global poverty (do we have all the necessieities to aid the human poor)\ The treatment of animals (eating meat, biomedical research) Utilitarianism theorists believe in calculating pain and pleasure, happiness and suffering. Whatever happened to good and evil: russ shafer- landau / ethicsintroa11@gmail. com.
