PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Shelly Kagan, Kantian Ethics, Consequentialism
8 Apr 2015
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Frankena l reconciling ethical theories & common sense morality. We"re going to look at a view inbetween 2 views we looked at: This view will say that there"s something good about utilitarianism, but there"s also something good about kant"s view. If we"re thinking about whether or not you should do something, you can ask yourself whether it"s morally required, permitted, or forbidden. Utilitarian view and kantian view might think that the same action is in a different moral category. There could be many different extreme views of morality. He says that lots of people wanna fit into a modern common sense morality category but he finds it difficult to justify. He says that we should always do the thing with the best consequences. On an extremist view, most things are either going to be. What is a moderate view? required or forbidden. There are some exceptions, says kagan - you can have a theory of morality that accepts some constraints.
