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III 109f
Ethics/Nagel. Consequentialism: thesis: the consequences of action are important - not how the action feels for the actor.
>Consequentialism, >Action.
NagelVs: it about the permission to lead one’s own life.
III 111
Internal perspective: Problem: that murder is prohibited does not command to prevent others from committing it.
Utilitarianism: good/bad.
Internal perspective: legal/illegal.
>Subjectivity/Nagel, >Utilitarianism.
III 112
Ethics/Nagel: core question: how far may the internal point of view be included?
Life is always the individual life. - It cannot be lived sub specie aeternitatis. - The limits are always the individual possibilities.
>Limits.
III 87ff
Ethics/Nagel: the acting from one’s own perspective has such a strong value that deontological paradoxes cannot be excluded. - They would only be avoidable at the cost of the impersonal world.
>Deontology.
III 86
Parallel objectivity/consciousness/ethics/Nagel: the objective world must contain the subjective perspectives.
>Objectivity, >Objectivity/Nagel.
Ethics: the neutral reasons that consider the actions of the subject with all its seemingly superstitious reasons.
>Recognition, >Intersubjectivity.
II 49
Determinism/ethics/Nagel: responsibility also exists in deterministic actions when the determination is intrinsic. - Actions that are determined by nothing are incomprehensible.
>Determinism.
II 54
Ethics/law/moral/God/theology/Nagel: an act is not converted into something wrong just because God exists.
>Morals, >God, >Justification, >Theology.
II 54
Categorical imperative/NagelVsKant: nothing but a direct interest in the other can be considered as a basis of ethics.
>Categorical imperative.
II 55
But: the reason not to do evil to someone else cannot be anchored in the individual person - II 61 Problem: Moral should not depend on the strength of interest in others.

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