PHIL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Triage, Natural And Legal Rights, Bowfin
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Midterm study guide: required knowledge and skills: If you are able to do the following, then you will be well prepared for the midterm exam. Prefer wwe over shakespeare: perhaps these ppl. aren"t properly acquainted with. Ppl, falsely believe that rights are natural and inviolable. Supports harm principle: gov. should only interfere if individuals are performing harm on others. Integrity is our commitment to who we are and what our life is about: au is wrong because it requires to alter these responsibilities to reconfigure our identity as the interests of commitments of other demand. Impractically objection au is impractical because its goal of utility maximization can never be achieved (1) distinguish psychological egoism from ethical egoism: ee a normative thesis. If pe is true, that might support ee: however, whether or not ee is true does not depend on whether pe is true i. e. ee could be true even if pe is false.
