Ethics: an utilitarian approach

Del 2 al 13 de juny del 2003

Programa:

1. The nature of ethics

The origins of ethics and the nature of ethical judgment

Evolution and the is-ought gap

Hume and Kant, emotion or reason as the basis for ehtics

Universalizability: can ethics have an objective element?

2. Normative ethics

From universalizability to preference utilitarianism

Two level veiw

Against the use of intuitions to test ethical views

3. The expanding circle

Human beings, sentient beings, living things and natural objects

4. Ehtics and animals

Speciesism

Non-speciesist ways of separating [most]humans from [most] animals

Consequences: eating meat, experimentation, etc.

5. The sanctity of life ethic, I

The embryo

The fetus

The infant

6. The sanctity of life ethic, II

Brain death

The persistent vegetative state

Voluntary euthanasia

7. The obigation to assist others
8. Ethics for one world
9. The genetics revolution
10. Ehtics and self-interest