PHILOS 2YY3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gilbert Harman, Relativism
23 Sep 2016
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A defense of ethical relativism- gilbert harman (pg 53) Convention (according to hume) is when each of the people adhere to certain principles so that other people will also adhere to it so they can benefit from each other and will continue to follow these principles. I help you and you help me, keep your promise/word and i will too, money, property. Reach through a process of implicit bargaining and mutual adjustment, this is done in self- interest. Moral judgements express feelings based on sympathy. Conventions create social utility (each person benefits from everyone else acting in accordance to those rules) Hypothetical agreements are like if, hard to hold people to that agreement. Given belief, each person has reason to obey. Out of self-interest, we develop conventions to manage conflicts and live with each other. Most of morality is a result of convention. Moral duties and obligations depend on conventions.
