JUSTICE 公正该如何是好？.ppt

JUSTICE Scene:1 the driver of a trolley car(有轨电车), 60 miles an hour five workers working on the track. your brakes dont work. You feel desperate because you know that if you crash into these five workers, they will all die. Scene:1 Another side track one worker working on the track. Your steering wheel works, so you can turn the trolley car QUESTION 1: What is the right thing to do? turn the trolley car onto the side track? or go straight ahead? One or five? better to save five lives even if it means sacrificing one Scene:2 youre an onlooker. Youre standing on a bridge overlooking a trolley car track. The tragedy is going to happen A very fat man standing next to you, leaning over the bridge Give him a shove Fall onto the track,die but save the fives PUSH OR NOT? What’s wrong with the former moral principals: Sacrifice one to save five? MORAL REASONING: Consequentialism:?locates morality in the consequences of an act. (kill on and save five.) Categorical:?locates morality in certain?(absolute moral requirements, such as)?duties and rights, regardless of the consequences. Thank you!