PHI 2397 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Epicurus, Making Money, Animal Testing
11 Feb 2016
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Video 1: puppy time (3 puppies running around. This way you will have the best result and most effective result. Let"s not forget, this way we will make the most amount of money too! Milton friedman (20th century american economist) said that business and ethics are not related. Business is whenever you are offered a product or serviced to another. Whereas, ethics is the art and science of decision-making (so of course they go together). Capitalism is the best system because it brings about the better good (which is utilitarianism) . Capitalism is justified on utilitarianism grounds (on the delivery of the good, not on the profit) Rockney jacobsen (in readings) he tries to make a point that capitalism is justified on the grounds of the delivery of the good, and not on the profit. Water boiler the temperature of the water = delivery of the good reading of the gauge = the amount of profit.
