We're going to explore in the days and weeks to come the contrast between consequentialist and categorical moral principles.

So, here we are.

Even if you don't agree that there's a moral imperative that we do it, it just makes economic sense.

It is still immoral.

They don't want to feel

A little grotesque but,

That sound familiar?

He lapsed morally.

Think about the Dalai Lama.

How many would vote not guilty, that what they did was morally permissible?

A good person is a moral person.

And speaking of values

It seems so obvious, and yet it is not.

My father led a moral life.

Why would you morally exonerate them? What are your reasons?

The clergy intended to teach against immorality.

Today and in the next few days we will begin to examine one of the most influential versions of consequentialist moral theory and that's the philosophy of utilitarianism.

I early on realized what I'm not able to give you are answers.

My grandfather led a moral life.

Tell us why wouldn't be all right.

Executive Producers Yasuyoshi Tokuma

You put yours in the white bin.

That's what we're watching TV for.

In 1970, inspiration plummets.

That is not the job of the science of memetics.

But here's the way it works.

Committee of Moral Abuses?

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Then, then then what do you think, would be morally justified then? Suppose

And we'll add Gapminder's amazing graphics to the front end.

I think it's I think it is morally reprehensible but I think that there's a distinction between what's morally reprehensible what makes someone legally accountable in other words the night as the judge said what's always moral isn't necessarily against the law and while I don't think that necessity justifies theft or murder any illegal act, at some point your degree of necessity does in fact exonerate you form any guilt. ok. other defenders, other voices for the defense?

I saw that people who were religious and non religious were equally obsessed with morality.

A then unknown philosopher named Adam Smith wrote a book in 1759 called The Theory of Moral Sentiments.

The priest tried to improve the people's morals.

The priest tried to improve the people's morals.

So instead I use the Jerry Maguire approach to research.

Jeremy Bentham, the eighteenth century English political philosopher.

That's very interesting

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In the state of the world that will result from the thing you do but then we went a little further, we considered those other cases and people weren't so sure about consequentialist moral reasoning when people hesitated to push the fat man over the bridge or to yank out the organs of the innocent patient people gestured towards reasons having to do with the intrinsic quality of the act itself.

English political philosopher gave first the first clear systematic expression to the utilitarian moral theory.

What I think is important is that, if it's clear that we exterminated these species, then I think we not only have a moral obligation to see what we can do about it, but I think we've got a moral imperative to try to do something, if we can.

that I really cared about. And so I feel a moral responsibility everytime

Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us, but we're presumably acting in such a way that people feel morally compelled to continue our mission, not to screw it up.

There are many reasons, but the two that merit the little bit of time is one, the clarity of purpose is there.