PHIL250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Animal Rights, Meta-Ethics, Penicillin
7 Sep 2016
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Ethical relativism: metaethics: the investigation of what ethical thought and talk is really all about. If so, how can we determine whether or not an ethical claim is correct: many people are tempted towards the view that there are no objective ethical truths. Ethical relativism: different cultures just have different ethical views, and none of these views can be more correct or accurate than any others. ), tolerance (not judging others for their ethical morals) The argument from disagreement: the argument from ethical disagreement. (p) different cultures have different views about what"s right and wrong, good and bad, etc. \ (c) there is no culture-independent fact of that matter about what"s right and wrong, good and bad, etc. In the case of earth-shape, history, biology, etc. We have methods of resolving the disagreement, even though applications can be variant, and challenges to the evidence. But there is a realization that evidence must be presented for these claims.
