Posts Tagged ‘conseqüencialismo’
Some philosophers defend an extremely demanding and far-reaching principle of obligatory beneficence. Peter Singer’s theory has been the most widely discussed such theory in recent decades. In his early work, Singer distinguished between preventing evil and promoting good and contended that persons in affluent nations are morally obligated to prevent something bad or evil from [...]
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Tags: beneficência, conseqüencialismo, Murphy, Peter Singer, supererrogação
Another popular charge is that classic utilitarianism demands too much, because it requires us to do acts that are or should be moral options (neither obligatory nor forbidden). (Scheffler 1982) For example, imagine that my old shoes are serviceable but dirty, so I want a new pair of shoes that costs $100. I could wear [...]
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Tags: conseqüencialismo, Peter Singer, Peter Unger, supererrogação, utilitarismo
Em “It Makes No Difference Whether or Not I Do It”, Jonathan Glover analisa dois argumentos: (1) o argumento da diferença insignificante, e (2) o argumento da ausência de diferença. Isto é, os argumentos que visam exculpar uma ação dado que seus efeitos são (1) imperceptíveis ou (2) inevitáveis na medida em que outro agente [...]
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Tags: conseqüencialismo, contexto, divisibilidade, ficha de leitura, Glover, limiar, pobreza
