MCCC Ethics Utilitarianism Discussion
*Answer all 3 questions
- Utilitarianism has a hard time explaining why a doctor should not use the organs of a healthy person to save the lives of others without their consent. Kantian Ethics has no problem explaining why this is immoral. On the other hand, Kant has a hard time explaining why we should not throw one person out of an overcrowded lifeboat to save everyone else. Utilitarianism has no problem explaining this. Each of these cases challenges the respective ethical theories by putting them at odds with our everyday ethical intuitions.
- Explain the similarities between Feminist Care Ethics and Aristotelian Virtue Ethics and why Feminist Care Ethics is incompatible with Kantian Deontological Ethics.
- Read Judith Jarvis Thomson-The Trolley Problem (pp. 421-423) and Turning the Trolley (424-427). Explain the Trolley Problem in both versions and the differences in the ways that Utilitarianism, Kantian deontology, and Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics would address the problem. Base your answer on the readings in our text and my Weekly Comments. Do not go to sources outside the textbook. This question requires you to go beyond a simple explanation and apply the theories to solve a moral dilemma.
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