CUL120 Lecture 12: Cul120-lec-12

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL120
• Professor: All

Document Summary

* ethics and morality often . (missed slide) * ethics is about practical matters, a general conversation about how we should live a (cid:1684)good life(cid:1685) * consequential: the moral value of any action always lies in its consequences. * actions, including, institutions, laws and practices are to be justified only by their references to results (smart and william 1997:79) * utilitarianism, so long as a course of action produces maximum benefits for everyone, utilitarianism does not care whether the benefits are produced by lies manipulation, or coerce. (andre &valasquez 1989) * deontological ethical theories oppose, to varying extents, consequentialism. * deontologists live in a universe defined by moral rules: (cid:1684)duty based(cid:1685), not result based. * people have a duty to do the right thing even if it produces a bad result. * an action is right if it is an action that. * a virtuous person would carry out in the same circumstances.