PHIL 149 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Consequentialism, California State Route 2, Welfarism
13 Jul 2017
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How should the us decide whether or not to have a carbon tax? remember, we"re talking about government regulation. and for that, you need to have an answer for the question above. Cba is an important answer to that question. So far, we"ve looked at challengers to the pricing of cba. In order to decide which policy to pursue. determine the monetized cost and bene ts of each proposal, and choose the one with the highest net bene t. A theory of rightness: a theory that explains what makes decisions or actions or policies. Teleological theories of rightness: teleological theories hold that the rightness or wrongness of an action is solely a matter of how much value the world would contain if that action were to be performed. Consequentialism doesn"t really take into account or care for this; there"s only one answer that is impartially right, and one person would then be wrong.
