Intellectual Liberty

Intellectual Liberty

• Overview/terms
• Read Case
• Analysis of case
• What would you do?

Goal:
Engage in moral reasoning; how to identify conflicts between ethical principles.

Ethics
vs.
Meta-ethics

Ethics:
The discipline dealing with what is good and bad and with moral duty/obligation

meta-Ethics:
the study of morality itself - how can we know what is right and what is wrong?

principle of Benefit maximization:
the best and most just decision is that which benefits the most people.

principle of equal respect:
we must act in ways that respect the equal worth of all individuals.

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What would you do