A web-site possibly LOST-related?? - Page 3

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PHI 227 Biomedical Ethics
Ethical Theories

Deontology and utilitarianism
The leading theories of modern ethics are deontology and utilitarianism.
Deontology
Deontology is best represented by Immanuel Kant for whom an action is moral only if it can be willed to be a universal law for everyone and the action is done out of respect for duty regardless of the consequences and what one happens to desire.
Utilitarianism
Utilitarianism is usually associated with Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill who argue that a moral action is the action that results in the greatest amount of happiness for the greatest number of people, everyone given equal consideration.
Common features of deontology and utilitarianism.

Despite their differences -- deontology focuses on rules and is rooted in reason while utilitarianism focuses on results and is rooted in psychology -- They have several things in common.
both theories express the Enlightenment quest for universal laws that govern everything and the desire to make morality secular, scientific, objective, and rational.
They combine a variety of moral considerations into systematic frameworks centered around a major idea derived from reflection on the nature of the right or the good, ideal conditions of choice, human nature, or agency.
for both deontologists and utilitarians, moral reasoning consists in the application of theoretically derived principles to particular cases in a deductive manner.

Questions on the Readings

What does "utility" mean according to Bentham?
What is Bentham's felicific calculus?
How does the "is-ought"problem relate to Bentham's theory?
What is Mill's justification for claiming that higher pleasures are better than lower pleasures?
On what grounds does Mill reject Bentham's hedonistic calculus?
What, according to Kant, is the only thing that is good in itself? Why does he think so?
Explain the difference between acting "for the sake of duty" and acting "in accordance with duty"
Provide two formulation of the categorical imperative.
Explain How Kant's moral philosophy challenges the idea that morality is subjective and relative.
What are prima facie duties? What problems do they raise?

This site has absolutely nothing to do with lost. It has changed names many times, and has been around since before lost was on tv. It used to be a place to get 'research chemicals' (unshceduled drugs, usually of the psychedelic variety like methylone, 5-meo-dipt, 4-ho-det, etc, etc...) You used to be able to link to several websites from here, like mdma.net, to get the designer quasi legal drugs. Most of these websites have been shut down by the DEA in operation Web Trypt, and the sites you're referring to are what's left of the 'ring'. The people that these sites are referring to (Faraday, Bentham as examples) are used by Lost because of their beliefs and research, not used based on this website. I doubt Disney wants anything to do with this site...

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Originally Posted by ithinkimlost

The people that these sites are referring to (Faraday, Bentham as examples) are used by Lost because of their beliefs and research, not used based on this website.

Sure LOST wouldn't be inspired by some web site- If anything, it would be the other way around anyways

Those web pages might be older than the show like you suggest, but could be updated with Lost-related content later on just as well. I too doubt that it's the work of LOST producers, but they got more than a few things that are curiously lost-related.. (and I'm not surprised there's some latent 'pharmacological' connection on the web pages either - it's been there in LOST around characters like Richard Alpert too.)

If you find all these sites interesting, look up 'Transhumanism'. Weird stuff. If I remember correctly, there are some Transhumanism links somewhere in there.

I think I need to take a weeks vacation to read everything in this thread... Hoping I can get the time to soon, from the posts it all seems very intresting!!!