PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Intuitionism, Categorical Imperative, Moral Skepticism
2 Mar 2018
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Factual statements are either true or false. Statements made on the basis of ethics/ religion. Ethical statements have little value because they can seldom be proved. Claims that ethical claims are neither true or false, but aren"t entirely useless because they show how each others feel about one another"s opinion. Both values and facts exist and both can be true and false, but in their own ways. Act so as to will the maxim of your act to be a universal moral law. Always act so that you can will the rule on which you act to be a universal moral wrong. To allow the stowaway to remain onboard must mean the pilot"s death, and the deaths of the 6 men dying of fever. Fundamental right - equal utility; the only absolute rights.
