PEDS401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Stuart Mill, Deontological Ethics, Contractualism

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Physical Education and Sport
• Course: PEDS401
• Professor: Sean Ryan

Document Summary

Consequentialist: most important that we have our preferences met, best judgment of good and bad for an individual is their preferences, 2 caveats, preferences for our own lives, intrinsic preferences, social contract: recognize certain obligations we have to each other as rational agents, 3 types of consent, actual, tacit, hypothetical, treat people by principles they could not object to instead of principles everyone would agree to, must be a reasonable objection, moral issue is both well being and justice, not aggregate. Main criticisms: impossible to apply, threat to close family and friends, too demanding, too permissive, doesn"t take equality seriously. Motives don"t matter all that counts is calculating the overall pleasure/pain: au allows us to consider specifics, ru doesn"t, au + ru only count actual or expected consequences, pu can promote selfish and self damaging behaviours, intuitively unethical situations. Ex. swimmers on rocks: too demanding always have to consider what you owe to everyone else.