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Eğitim: Mercer University, Kuzey Karolina Üniversitesi, Chapel Hill
Unvan:
Filozof
Doğum:
Columbus, Georgia, ABD, 30 Mayıs 1941
Ölüm:
Birmingham, Alabama, ABD, 5 Eylül 2003
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What is morality?
We are discussing no small matter, but how we ought to live.
Socrates, in Plato’s REPUBLIC (ca. 390 bc)
Moral reasonig
When we feel strongly about an issue, it is tempting to assume that we simply know what the truth is, without even having to consider the arguments. Unfortunately, however, we cannot rely on our feelings, no matter how powerful they may be. Our feelings may be irrational; they may be the products of prejudice, selfishness, or cultural conditioning.
• Ethical Egoism: Each person ought to do whatever will best promote his or her own interests.
• The Social Contract Theory: The right thing to do is to follow the rules that rational, self-interested people would agree to follow for their mutual benefit.
• Utilitarianism: One ought to do whatever will lead to the most happiness.
• Kant’s theory: Our duty is to follow those rules that we could accept as universal laws
—that is, rules that we would be willing for everyone to follow in all circumstances.
And these are the theories that have dominated moral philosophy from the 17th century on.
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Being alive is a benefit only if you can carry on activities and have thoughts, feelings, and relations with other people -- in other words, if you have a life. Without such things, biological existence has no value.
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...criticizing animal experiments is too easy for most of us. We may feel self-righteous or superior because we do not do such research ourselves. All of us, however, are involved in cruelty when we eat meat. The facts about meat production are more disturbing than any facts about animal experimentation.
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