What implications would there be if we can’t identify a good of the sort that the utilitarian seems to need?
Construct constitutive and operational definitions for any three (3) of the actions and outcome variables listed in the shaded box under Review Question 1 at the end of Chapter 6. (Note: The box includes Program expenditure, Equality of educational opportunity.
August 7, 2017Focus on two art works from Monet.I post two documents below, one of them is the request of this paper, the other one is my general introduction of what i am gonna write in this paper, include art works’ names, and basically the information about these two works.
August 7, 2017What implications would there be if we can’t identify a good of the sort that the utilitarian seems to need?
- What objections does Tom Regan give to the utilitarian approach to ethics?
- What does he mean when he says that utilitarianism does not value us as individuals but only our feelings?
- Is he right?
- Do you agree with him that the ends do not justify the means (why or why not)?
Discussion 2
- Utilitarianism is based on the notion of bringing about the greatest good, which requires some conception of what “the good” is such that this can be identified, measured, and calculated in a way that is consistent across time, place, and people. Is there any such “good” that has these characteristics?
- What does Mill identify as the good, and does it have these characteristics?
- What about Singer? What good does he seem to be referring to and does it have these characteristics?
- What implications would there be if we can’t identify a good of the sort that the utilitarian seems to need?
Each discussion post should be at least 600 words.
