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Justice: What is the right thing to do
Killing the one, but sparing the five
Depends on the consequences that result from your action
Categorically wrong to kill an innocent person to save 5 lives
Moral reasoning
Consequentialist moral reasoning
Categorical moral reasoning
Risks :
Personal risks
Political risks
Philosophy teaches us
Teaches what you already know
Taking what we know from familiar unquestioned settings
Skepticism
It’s a characteristic evasion
It’s the idea like we did not resolve once and for all
No way of reasoning
The philosophy of utilitarianism Jeremy Bentham
18th century English political philosopher
His idea is that right thing to do the just things to do is to maximize utility
he mean by utility balance of pleasure over pain, happiness over Suffering
The case of the Queen versus Dudley and Stevens
19th century British law case
Three lives at stake versus one
Dudley was the captain, Stevens was the first mate and Brooks was a sailor
Richard Parker
17 years old
He was an orphan
he was on his fist long voyage at sea
he thought the journey would make a man out of him
a wave hit the ship and Reseda sank
parker was killed with a pen knife for food
four days the three of them fed on the body and blood of the cabin boy
Aim of this course
is to awaken the restlessness of reason
to see where it might lead