Agent 007

http://prezi.com/05eajz2_rplm/agency/

Milgram Experiment

The Milgram Experiment is a very interesting experiment which we can examine it in many philosophical view points concerning free will. The first free view theory we will examine the experiment in light of is the Universal Casualty which the scientific determinism believe in. The universal casualty states that each event has a cause and the cause is resulted from another event and so on thus free will does not exist. This theory, first of all will eliminate the ethical issue because there is no free will; if we don't have a choice, how can we be blame for our actions? The volunteers' actions to shock people will just be an effect of the cause, the experimenters pushing them, which is result of another cause in a chain events.

Now that we established the Universal Casualty we will take a look at agency theory. The agency theory only believes a part of the universal Casualty: that every event has a cause but it doesn't result from another action. The theory says that an action by a thinkable thing is a free act no matter what. The action is the pushing the button and the cause is the volunteers. Since volunteers can think their action is free and thus become unethical.

When an indeterminist sees this experiment, he or she will see that the volunteers are unethcal people. Since they do not believe in Universal Casualty at all so the choice of whether the volunteers pressing the button or not is entirely up to them. The compatibility also has a similar thought. They still believe that the choice to press the button is entirely up to the volunteers which in this case make them unethical but they still believe in universal casualty. But how can there be free will in universal casualty. The compatibility believe that as long as the actions come from within you, it is free.

Zomibeee Utilitarian

The guy is infected with zombie virus so the community decides to kill him so that the community is safe.