1. What would the utilitarian say about my cost-benefit analysis about school? Does it bring more pain or pleasure for me to go to school?
Utilitarian will say I need to place the importance in the 5 intangible things that i wrote for the cost-benefit analysis for going to school. Since intangible values will have far more long lasting values while costs will be more based on immediate values. Since utilitarian base importance in the thing that will bring more happiness to people it will surely focus more on intangible values. I think it brings more pleasure for me to go to school. Because benefits that i get out of the school outweighs the pain that I would gain from going to school. Since benefit will increase my happiness I could say that going to school will bring me more pleasure.
2. What would be an objection that the utilitarian have about placing a $ value on everything?
It fails to respect individual's right. Utilitarian will argue that placing five values on everything especially tangilbe things are not right. Since not everything can't be calculated based on money. Putting a price tag on everything will be wrong.
2011년 9월 27일 화요일
2011년 9월 18일 일요일
Homework 3 Caes
Case 1: Summary: During the sail a ship is shipwrecked. 4 people escape onto the life boat; one was captain, first mate, crew member and a cabin boy. Only food is 2 can of turnips and a turtle that they caught. After 19 days in the sea the food is depleted and the cabin boy fell sick. First mate proposed to eat the cabin boy and crew member agreed. They killed the boy and after 3 days they were saved by the German ship. They were tried in to English court.
I think the decision was a wise one. If a man has already fell sick then whats the matter if he dies couple of days earlier. Rather than risking the life of other it would have been best to kill the weak first.
Case 2: Summary: A hospital that take cares of Jewish people are at the edge of being shutted down. German, Nazi is taking them like a cattle and killing the immobile people. The doctor and the nurses began quickly killing their patient by giving them a strong sleeping pill that would most likely kill the patient but in more peaceful way.
I think the decision was a wise one. Many of them would have died anyways and in much more painful way. Killing the patient before they taste the true fear was a last way of mercy that this people could have shown.
Case 3: Summary: You have less then a week to live. Other 4 patient could live with your organ transplant that is required now. You say no to doctor who wishes to perform organ transplant because one of the patient is her daughter. She gives you a doss and perform the surgery
I think it was a unwise choice. The passage said that he would be extremely luck to live another week and other patients would be dead by next week. Doctor could have waited for her patient to die first.
I think the decision was a wise one. If a man has already fell sick then whats the matter if he dies couple of days earlier. Rather than risking the life of other it would have been best to kill the weak first.
Case 2: Summary: A hospital that take cares of Jewish people are at the edge of being shutted down. German, Nazi is taking them like a cattle and killing the immobile people. The doctor and the nurses began quickly killing their patient by giving them a strong sleeping pill that would most likely kill the patient but in more peaceful way.
I think the decision was a wise one. Many of them would have died anyways and in much more painful way. Killing the patient before they taste the true fear was a last way of mercy that this people could have shown.
Case 3: Summary: You have less then a week to live. Other 4 patient could live with your organ transplant that is required now. You say no to doctor who wishes to perform organ transplant because one of the patient is her daughter. She gives you a doss and perform the surgery
I think it was a unwise choice. The passage said that he would be extremely luck to live another week and other patients would be dead by next week. Doctor could have waited for her patient to die first.
2011년 9월 6일 화요일
Do Now: Example of Imperfect Knowledge
My example of the imperfect knowledge is the person's paradigm. If a person grows up living in a village surrounded by high mountains, he might believe that there is no other world behind the mountain. To him it is the truth and it is his paradigm. However to outsider's point of view they know that the person's paradigm is an imperfect knowledge. There is a world even beyond the high mountains that surround the village. The things that are held as truth by the person living in the village surrounded by mountains is proven to be imperfect.
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