PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Universalizability, Kantianism, Experience Machine
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Week 3 lecture #6: thursday january 21, 2016. Today: utilitarianism, justice, and the separateness of persons. The morally right act is the act that will produce the greatest sum of pleasure minus pain. We can break this down into two main parts . The morally right act is the one that will produce the greatest total amount of good (= the least amount of bad) out of the acts available to you. The only thing good in itself is pleasure and the absence of pain. Argues that something else matters to us other than how much pleasure and pain we experience. Two options: argue that nozick is incorrect and that hedonism is true after all, adjust their view. Adopt a broader view than hedonism about the good. Focus on the consequentialist component of utilitarianism. Suppose, for the sake or argument, that hedonism is true.
