Strategie obrony człowieka przed nieograniczonymi żądaniami

• Authors: Tomasz Kwarciński

Title variants

EN

The Strategies of Defence from Unrestricted Demands

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

According to the utilitarian reasoning, people should always choose the least bad option of action. For example, they should sacrifice one person to save more people. The act of demanding from anybody such a decision is named „an unrestricted demand”. The justification of the belief that we should not address unrestricted demands to anybody usually takes form of deontological argumentation (deontological strategy), which points to deontological principles (e. g. „do not kill”) or rights (e. g. the right to live), leaving apart the consequences of the actions. In the following article we defend the thesis that the equally successful justification of the interdiction of addressing unrestricted demands can be formulated on the basis of the modified calculus of consequences (consequential strategy). Of course, modifying consequentialism by taking into account rights or egoistic motives is not sufficient. We can obtain the successful defence from unrestricted demands within the consequentialist frame by resigning from the impartiality condition on behalf of the evaluator relativity concept.

Keywords

EN

utilitarianism; consequentialism; deontologism; evaluator relativity; unrestricted demand

• Publisher: Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii Polskiej Akademii Nauk / Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
• Journal: Prakseologia
• Year: 2007
• Issue: 147
• Pages: 65-76

Contributors

author

Tomasz Kwarciński

• Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin