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O’NEILL
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO GIVE UNTIL IT HURTS
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Onara Sylvia O’Neill (born 1941)
Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve
Ph. D. Harvard, John Rawls supervisor
8 books, includingFaces of Hunger: An
Essay on Poverty, Development and Justice (1986)
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Kantian Assumptions
Re: Categorical Imperative
not Universal Law Formula, but
Kant’s Formula of End in Itself 686-7
“Always treat humanity never merely as means
but as an end in itself.”
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Kantian Assumptions
Re: Maxims
Recall: rightness or wrongness of act determined by its maxim.
Maxim understood by O’Neill as: principle on which one acts
OR
one’s intention in acting
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Kantian Assumptions
Re: Formula of Ends
1. People can be used as means, but not merely as means.
Examples: students use professor as means to a degree; professor uses students as means to salary, etc.
2. In deception or coercion people are used merely as means.
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Kant: 2 Kinds of Duties
1. PERFECT DUTYDefined in terms of Universal Law
formula:
If maxim to do action A cannot be universalized without
contradiction or impossibility, then
not doing A is perfect duty.
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Kant: 2 Kinds of Duties
2. IMPERFECT DUTYIf maxim to do A cannot be willed to
become universal law, then not doing A is imperfect duty.
Something cannot be willed if doing so requires will “to conflict with itself”.
Example: willing to ride bicycle without getting on it, to eat but not swallow…
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Kant: Justice vs. Beneficence
1. Perfect duties must be fulfilled without exception at all times.
2. Imperfect duties are supererogatory: fulfilling them is good, but not strictly required.
1. Justice is a perfect duty.
2. Beneficence (charity) is an imperfect duty.
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O’Neill on Beneficence
1. Justice demands we never treat another merely as a means.
2. Beneficence must be selective, since others’ goals are infinitely diverse.
“Kantians are not compelled to working interminably through a list of happiness-producing and misery-reducing acts.” 688
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Famine, [War, Disease…]
JUSTICE requires:
1. No cheating if there is rationing scheme.
2. Do one’s best to fulfill duties to dependants.
3. Birth control or Economic development?
4. No coercion: “outward forms of negotiation, bargaining, and voluntary consent do not demonstrate there is no coercion.” 690
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Famine, [War, Disease…]
BENEFICENCE requires:
Selectivity:
Developing someone’s abilities to pursue various ends is more important that helping them achieve particular ends.
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Re: Ethical Theory
Kantianism enables us to figure out what to do even in the absence of the knowledge required by utilitarianism about the overall effects of our actions on others. 691-2