PHILOS 1D03 Lecture Notes - Consequentialism
6 Dec 2013
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The ethics of technology and sociopolitical philosophy of philosophy are by no means completely segregated from one another. Ethical concerns are informed by a description of the socio- political landscape technology presents. Sociopolitical problems are informed by what sorts of moral obligations we are presumed to have. Just as it may add new possibilities for choice and enrich our lives, so too may constrain choice, or impact us negatively. Given technologies capacity to affect us in such far reaching and life altering ways it must be held up to ethical. Crash course in the nature of ethical theory examination. Moral agent: a being who is capable of acting rightly or wrongly, and is a bearer of moral obligation. Utilitarianism: is a form of moral consequentialism, according to which it is the consequences of actions. Date: 10/22/13 which determine whether that action is morally right or wrong.
