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* Most influential variety of consequentialism. | * Most influential variety of consequentialism. | ||
- | | Basis of Utilitariansim | + | | Basis of Utilitarianism |
| Instrumental and Intrinsic Value | **Instrumental Value**: A thing has only instrumental value if it is only valuable for what it may get you (e.g., money). \\ **Intrinsic Value**: A thing has intrinsic value if you value it for itself (i.e., you would value it even if it brought you nothing else. | | | Instrumental and Intrinsic Value | **Instrumental Value**: A thing has only instrumental value if it is only valuable for what it may get you (e.g., money). \\ **Intrinsic Value**: A thing has intrinsic value if you value it for itself (i.e., you would value it even if it brought you nothing else. | | ||
| What has intrinsic value? | For utilitarians: | | What has intrinsic value? | For utilitarians: | ||
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== The Categorical Imperative == | == The Categorical Imperative == | ||
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+ | | First version | Act only according to that maxim [i.e., rule] whereby you can at the same time will that it become a universal law. | | ||
+ | | Second version | Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.\\\\ -> Important to treat people as autonomous agents. | | ||
+ | | Third version | (Not important here, just for completeness) Every rational being must so act as if [they] were through his maxim always a lawmaking member in the universal kingdom of ends. | | ||
* Influential in arguments for human rights. | * Influential in arguments for human rights. | ||
* Informed consent | * Informed consent | ||
* Value the autonomy of individuals. | * Value the autonomy of individuals. | ||
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==== Problems ==== | ==== Problems ==== |
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