William Flashcards

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George the chemist

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  • agAINST job offer, should he take it so someone better doesnt get it
  • Moral obligation?
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Jim and the protestors

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  • Should jim kill one so 20 free or jims hands clean, but 20 dead
  • Moral obligation?
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Integrity

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  • Acting on the basis of one’s most deeply held convictions and believe
  • Acting in “Good conscience” and “wholeness”
  • Psychological effect
    Utilitarian response:
  • Feelings are irrational
  • Insufficiently weighty
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Negative Responsibility

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  • Agents responsible for consequences of their Inaction
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What is Self-Indulgent Squeamishness

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  • Reluctance to cause harm for the sake of the greater good instance of self-indulgent self-indulgent squeamishness
  • Utilitarian perspective:
  • Disagreeable feelings/experiences
  • Agents feelings have virtually no weight in relation to what is at stake
  • Non-utilitarian response:
  • Emotional expressions that an action is wrong
  • Moral feelings is not merely objective of utilitarian calculus
  • Experience a LOSE (literal loss) in terms of one’s integrity
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