teleological ethics
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- Created on: 03-04-20 18:22
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- consequentialism
- Teleological Ethics
- different branches
- utilitarianism- greatest happiness of the greatest number is teleological
- hedonism- people should maximise human pleasure
- opposed to deontological ethics
- in practice people don't use 'act consequentialism' and instead use rule consequentialism (so, in general, lying is bad)
- act consequentialism- action becomes morally right when it produces the greatest good for the greatest number of people
- rule consequentialism- the moral correctness of an action depends on the moral correctness of the rules that allow it to achieve the greatest good
- pros/ cons
- mostly agrees with our moral reasoning
- depends on a person's own perception
- a 'bad' action can have 'good' results
- isn't concerned with the minority
- promotion of happiness and utility
- relatively precise/ objective method for moral decision making
- different branches
- no act is inherently wrong, it depends on the result of the act
- people should do whatever produces the greatest amount of good consequences. E.g. utilitarianism/ situation ethics
- more good consequences an act produces, the better/ more right the act is
- e.g. giving money to a poor person might NOT be moral if they used it for drugs (if drug use is immoral)
- Teleological Ethics
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