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1 W.D. Ross ( ) British philosopher Translator or Aristotle Defends a pluralist theory of morality in his now-classic book The Right and the Good (1930) Big idea: prima facie duties
2 Prima Facie Duties Ross, The Right and the Good, pp : I suggest prima facie duty or conditional duty as a brief way of referring to the characteristic (quite distinct from that of being a duty proper) which an act has, in virtue of being of a certain kind (e.g. the keeping of a promise), of being an act which would be a duty proper if it were not at the same time of another kind which is morally significant. Whether an act is a duty proper or actual duty depends on all the morally significant kinds it is an instance of.
3 Prima Facie Duties An act is a prima facie duty when there is a moral reason in favor of doing the act, but one that can be outweighed by other moral reasons. Another definition: An act is a prima facie duty when it has at least one right-making feature. Another term that means the same thing is prima facie right.
4 Prima Facie Duties An act is a prima facie wrong when there is a moral reason against doing the act, but one that can be outweighed by other moral reasons. Another definition: An act is a prima facie wrong when it has at least one wrong-making feature. * Don t confuse prima facie rightness and wrongness with actual rightness and wrongness, or what I will sometimes call all-things-considered rightness and wrongness.
5 Prima Facie Duties Example: If I have promised to meet a friend at a particular time for some trivial purpose, I should certainly think myself justified in breaking my engagement if by doing so I could prevent a serious accident or bring relief to the victims of one. - Ross (p. 18) Let s make this more explicit...
6 Prima Facie Duties The Promise/Accident Example: I promise to meet a friend for lunch. On the way there, I witness an accident. If I keep my promise to meet my friend, someone will die. If I break my promise, I can help at the accident, and save a life. I thus have a prima facie duty to meet my friend (since I promised that I would meet him, and that I promised to do something is a moral reason in favor of doing it). But I also have a prima facie duty to help at the accident (since this would prevent serious harm to someone, and that an act would prevent harm is a moral reason in favor of doing it). I thus have a conflict of prima facie duties.
7 Ross List of Prima Facie Duties (a) Fidelity: (p. 21) If you make a promise, you have a prima facie obligation to keep it. (b) Reparations: If you have wronged someone, you have a prima facie obligation to repair it, or to make it right. (c) Gratitude: If someone has benefitted you, you have a prima facie obligation to express your gratitude.
8 Ross List of Prima Facie Duties (d) Justice: See to it that goods are distributed fairly. (e) Beneficence: (continued) Help a brother out. (or sister!) (f) Self-Improvement Make yourself a better person. (g) Non-Maleficence There is a prima facie moral obligation not to harm others.
9 Ross Theory: Rossian Pluralism It is worth while to try to state more definitely the nature of the acts that are right.... It is obvious that any of the acts that we do has countless effects, directly or indirectly, on countless people, and the probability is that any act, however right it be, will have adverse effects... on some innocent people. Similarly, any wrong act will probably have beneficial effects on some deserving people. Every act therefore, viewed in some aspects, will be prima facie right, and viewed in others, prima facie wrong, and...
10 Ross Theory: Rossian Pluralism... right acts can be distinguished from wrong acts only as being those which, of all those possible for the agent in the circumstances, have the greatest balance of prima facie rightness... over their prima facie wrongness Ross (p. 41)
11 Rossian Pluralism RP: an act is morally right if and only if it has the greatest balance of prima facie rightness over prima facie wrongness, as compared with the alternatives (where prima facie rightness and wrongness is determined by the list (a)-(g) above).
12 Ross Theory: Rossian Pluralism For the estimation of the comparative stringency of these prima facie obligations no general rules can, so far as I can see, be laid down. We can only say that a great deal of stringency belongs to the duties of 'perfect obligation the duties of keeping our promises, of repairing wrongs we have done, and of returning the equivalent of services we have received. For the rest, εν τη αισθησει η κρισις. This sense of our particular duty in particular circumstances, preceded and informed by the fullest reflection we can bestow on the act in all its bearings, is highly fallible, but it is the only guide we have to our duty. - Ross (pp )
13 Ross Theory: Rossian Pluralism εν τη αισθησει η κρισις. Aristotle That s right, Aristotle. The decision rests with perception. Ross
14 Rossian Pluralism RP: an act is morally right if and only if it has the greatest balance of prima facie rightness over prima facie wrongness, as compared with the alternatives (where prima facie rightness and wrongness is determined by the list (a)-(g)). (a) Fidelity (b) Reparations (c) Gratitude (d) Justice (e) Beneficence (f) Self-Improvement (g) Non-Maleficence
15 Rossian Pluralism Example: Promise/Accident Fidelity Beneficence... keep promise; guy dies break promise; save guy balance of prima facie rightness over prima facie wrongness this column is all a utilitarian would look at this column is what Ross will look at
16 an abstract illustration of Ross Theory Prima facie duties Alternatives a1 a2 a3 (a) Fidelity (b) Reparations (c) Gratitude (d) Justice (e) Beneficence (f) Self-Improvement (g) Non-Maleficence balance of prima facie rightness over prima facie wrongness the right act, according to Ross Theory
17 Deontology Ross Theory is a form of deontology. Deontology is the view that it can be permissible, and perhaps even obligatory, not to do what would have the best outcome. Deontology is thus the denial of consequentialism. Deontological theories often believe in: constraints: rules that forbid (either absolutely or prima facie) certain kinds of action (e.g., lying, harming the innocent) options: agents are often permitted to favor their own projects and interests, to the detriment of overall happiness. duties of special relationship: that we are sometimes required to favor the interests of those we stand in special relationships to (e.g., parent-child, teacher-student, friendfriend), to the detriment of overall happiness.
18 Ross Argument from Promises against Utilitarianism Ross (p.p 34-35): Suppose, to simplify the case by abstraction, that the fulfilment of a promise to A would produce 1,000 units of good for him, but that by doing some other act I could produce 1,001 units of good for B, to whom I have made no promise, the other consequences of the two acts being of equal value; should we really think... that it was our duty to do the second act and not the first? I think not. We should, I fancy, hold that only a much greater disparity of value between the total consequences would justify us in failing to discharge our prima facie duty to A. After all, a promise is a promise, and is not to be treated so lightly as the theory we are examining [utilitarianism] would imply.
19 Ross Argument from Promises against Utilitarianism Alternatives benefit to A benefit to B Hedonic Utility keep promise to A 1, ,000 break promise to A 0 1,001 1,001 and help B instead Ross Argument from Promises against AU P1. If AU is true, then it is right to break the promise to A. P2. But it s not right to break the promise to A. C. Therefore, AU is not true.
20 Some Problems for Rossian Pluralism (1) Incompleteness (2) Disunity Though consider a Kantian unification strategy: respect for persons. Might this help explain some of Ross duties? (3) Is Deontology Irrational?...
21 Is Deontology Irrational? P1. If we all successfully follow Rossian Pluralism, we ll be less happy as a whole than if we all successfully follow Utilitarianism. P2. It would be irrational for us to follow a theory under which we would be less happy as a whole. C1. Therefore, it would be irrational for us to follow Rossian Pluralism. P3. If it would be irrational for us to follow some moral theory, then that theory cannot be the correct moral theory. C2. Therefore, Rossian Pluralism cannot be the correct moral theory.
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