The Case of the Speluncean Explorers

What determines what action taken by any agent is wrong or wrong? Lon L. Fuller filed a lawsuit to evaluate the ethical definition of correct behavior in the 1949 article "Speluncean Explorers Litigation." Ethical studies of correct behavior consist of two main moral theories: Dentology (backward / original) and objective (forward / end). Both have religious elements and non-religious elements. Ontology theory includes sacred instruction theory (religion) and cantism (non-religion), but the theory of purpose theory has natural law theory (religion) and utilitarianism (non-religion) theory.

A brief history of the incident. Speluncean explorer vs. Stopher County (4300) Comprehensive Entity Court incident is about 5 Speluncean Explorers. After the landslide closed the entrance, the explorer was locked in the cave. Twenty days later, these explorers sent a message of help to the rescue team. As the doctors outside the cave say, explorers are exhausted their supplies, there is no way to survive in the cave because their distribution and conditions are not supported. In addition, one of the explorers told the doctor on behalf of the remaining doctors and asked if they could survive by eating one of them, and the doctor agreed. It is further recommended to throw a die to decide who can eat. After that, Whitmore was eaten. On the 32nd day it was pointed out that survivors were rescued and killed Whetmore. Four survivors were sentenced to death by the Supreme Court for killing Roger Whetmore.

This is related to "Splusson Explorer incident" written by Lon Fuller for Harvard Law Review. This is an experiment that gives a hypothetical case of a cave explorer that Fuller is trapped in a cave and uses the opportunity to eat so that they can kill and avoid others to survive to avoid hunger To do. He wrote five judges who opposed the case. I do not intend to explain the reasoning of all the judges, but a judge believes that the "murderer" of the case is beyond the scope of social law and therefore under the natural conditions and natural law, We insist on confidence. According to natural law, it is reasonable to kill people to accept the rules and survive others.

According to Aquinas' law definition, "Law is the result of how reasoning achieves common interests (for everyone)." In the case of the Speluncean explorer, the people trapped in the cave were not within the jurisdiction of Newgarth, so they become their own society. "To achieve common interests of everyone" applies only to men in the cave as they are the only ones within their jurisdiction. - Determine whether the actions performed by the agent are correct or incorrect. Lon L. Fuller filed a lawsuit to evaluate the ethical definition of correct behavior in the 1949 article "Speluncean Explorers Litigation." Ethical studies of correct behavior consist of two main moral theories: Dentology (backward / original) and objective (forward / end). Both have religious and non-religious elements