tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post2351798972456622525..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Proportionality in Double EffectAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-301564418051357872010-04-11T22:11:47.580-05:002010-04-11T22:11:47.580-05:00Anscombe was worried about this condition being ab...Anscombe was worried about this condition being abused in a consequentialist way...She wrote about this in her "Good and Bad Human Actions".Andrew Jaegerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06478566939092309059noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-15569047765501587662010-04-08T19:15:54.594-05:002010-04-08T19:15:54.594-05:00Intermediate principles? Maybe. Subjective? I a...Intermediate principles? Maybe. Subjective? I am skeptical.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-6545996756228969622010-04-08T16:43:58.263-05:002010-04-08T16:43:58.263-05:00Hi Alex--
What do you think of Germain Grisez'...Hi Alex--<br /><br />What do you think of Germain Grisez's idea that proportionality involves applying intermediate principles like the Golden Rule? On this view, it would be wrong to pursue good G, thereby causing harm H to Jones, if you would be unwilling to accept H for yourself if some other (relevantly similarly situated) person were pursuing G. Here, what you would be "(un)willing to accept" is a subjective matter not determined rationally (by commensuration or anything else); but reason does require that you apply that subjective weighing impartially, whatever it turns out to be. <br /><br />This wouldn't cover every application of proportionality. Sometimes the agent himself incurs H, so fairness can't be operative. Thus, whether Fr. Damien (celibate, without dependents) was reasonable in accepting death as an expected side effect of tending to lepers, is for Grisez a matter of other principles (e.g., against fanaticism: allowing subrational motivations to exaggerate one's focus on a particular good). But I have a harder time unpacking this one.sgirgishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11031583898567730279noreply@blogger.com