The Jeffersons George the Philanthropist httpwwwyoutubecomwatchvfh5NYwnVXsQampfeaturerelated Using the arguments of the ACT utilitarian viewpoint support Georges actions ID: 539098
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Scenario – George Jefferson
The
Jeffersons
’ “George the Philanthropist”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh5NYwnVXsQ&feature=related
Using the arguments of the ACT utilitarian viewpoint, support George’s actions.
Would a deontologist say that George is acting ethically? Why or why not?Slide2
Scenario - The Kohlberg Dilemma
In
Europe, a woman was near death from a special kind of cancer. There was one drug that the doctors thought might save her. It was a form of radium that a druggist in the same town had recently discovered. The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to make. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $ 1,000 which is half of what it cost. He told the druggist that his wife was dying and asked him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the druggist said: "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it." So Heinz got desperate and broke into the man's store to steal the drug-for his wife.
Using the social contract theory, write an argument that explains why the husband was justified in stealing the drug.
Using the ACT utilitarian theory, what argument could you make to support the husband?
Using the RULE utilitarian theory, what argument could you make to support the husband?Slide3
Scenario: the van
You run an orphanage and have had a hard time making ends meet. A car dealership offers you a new van worth $15,000 for free if you will falsely report to the government that the dealership donated a van worth $30,000. You really need the van and it will give you an opportunity to make the children happy. Do you agree to take the van
?
Scenario by Jeff McLaughlin, Thomson Rivers University.
What would Kant say? What would his reasons be?
What would an ethicist following ACT utilitarianism say & what reason would he or she give?
What would an ethicist
following
RULE
utilitarianism say & what reason would he or she give?