PHIL 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Fetus, Moral Realism, Grand Unified Theory

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 235
• Professor: Meghant Sudan

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Lecture 1. 2 meta-ethics and other considerations they often are used. Welcome to lecture 1. 2, meta-ethics and other considerations. After listening to everything so far, you may be wondering if any of this yet connects with morality in your everyday use of the term. And indeed, in ethics and moral philosophy, interchangeably. Ethics and moral philosophy then would be best understood as the study of morality its concepts, practices, and justifications. that is, morality is the thing, and ethics is the study of that thing. Of course, as i just mentioned, many writers use the terms interchangeably, so be careful with the words. A moral philosopher is a thinker who considers whether or not the theories and concepts of morality are correct. So, in a certain sense morality is everywhere, whereas. Ethics is a specific and systematic study of morality.