PHIL 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Retributive Justice, Murder 2, Human Cloning
11 May 2016
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The final exam will take place on tuesday, may 17 from 1:30--3:30 pm in the lecture room. It will contain true/false, multiple choice, and short essay questions covering the following topics: Singer"s argument in favor of the claim that we have a moral obligation to donate to famine relief - we have a moral obligation to help those who are suffering from hunger. Moderate and strong versions of the general principle. General principle (moderate) - if it is in our power to prevent something bad from happening, without thereby sacrificing anything morally significant, we ought, morally, to do it . Arthur"s objection 1 - we do not have to prevent any of those bad events that are taking place far away from us. Response - from a moral viewpoint, it does not matter how far away from us the bad thing is happening. Objection 2 - we don"t have to prevent those bad events that other people can prevent.
