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Episode 9: Utilitarian Ethics: What Should We Do?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Utilitarian Essay - Kant's Consequences Inuti Im

Kant's theory is that you have to determine if an act is right or wrong without reference to the consequences. But when he begins to deduce from this prece any of the actual duties of morality, "he fails, almost grotesquely," writes John Stuart Mill in his essay on utilitarianism. He goes on and uses these examples like medical arts: You can't prove that health is good per seen. And so doesn't kant have a point if he wants to stick to the odd and say it's really irreducible? Well, with kant in particular, and i think with these other things as well, he seems to think that theyare not clear enough to

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