Week 4 PHL

Please view the brief video below and complete the prompts:The Trolley ProblemLinks to an external 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOpf6KcWYyw

Respond to one of the following prompts:

• Should you flip the switch and divert the trolley, killing one person to save the lives of five other people? Contrast what a utilitarian would say using its core principles of welfare, impartiality, sum-ranking, and consequences with what a Kantian would say according to its core principles of universalizability, duty, impartiality, and reciprocity. Use appropriate textual evidence to back up your claim. Which of the ethical theories you discussed do you believe provides the best account of what the morally correct action to take is and why? (USLOs 4.1, 4.2, 4.3)
• Should you push the man onto the track and stop the trolley, killing one person to save the lives of five other people? Contrast what a utilitarian would say using its core principles of welfare, impartiality, sum-ranking, and consequences with what a virtue ethicist would say according to its core principles of telos, virtue, eudaimonia, and practical wisdom. Use appropriate textual evidence to back up your claim. Which of the ethical theories you discussed do you believe provides the best account of what the morally correct action to take is and why? (USLOs 4.1, 4.2, 4.3)