Killing One to Save Five
A Test of Two Hartman-style Value Calculuses
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https://doi.org/10.67945/jfa.v1i.34Keywords:
value calculus, trolley problem, applied ethics, formal axiologyAbstract
In his presentation of formal axiology, Robert S. Hartman left a conceptual hole: he never supplied a complete value calculus. Both Frank G. Forrest and Mark A. Moore have attempted to rectify this deficiency, each offering a value calculus radically different from the other. This paper reviews the lacuna left by Hartman, details criteria that we might wish a value calculus to meet, then reviews and comments on the two calculuses of Forrest and Moore, and their analyses of two scenarios in which one is killed to save five.References
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