PHIL 2750 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Environmentalism, Pineapple, Meta-Ethics
1 Aug 2018
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The missing shade of green k. rawles. Tension between philosophy as academic discipline and a commitment to direct acion. Relects general tension between knowledge and acion (theory and pracice) What should we think of the idea that ethics is a form of pracical philosophy meant to moivate, direct and guide acion. Can a philosophical argument moivate acion? o according to rawles, yes. Consider singer: it is the presentaion of factors or the argument he makes that moves us (moivates us): ex: tesing cosmeics on animals or child in the pond lomoar cpsd| 987298. Beliefs on their own don"t actually moivate someimes facts do moivate; not always. Facts can move us to reconsider views, perhaps lead to change in values. Ex: i didn"t know the climate change was so bad. Knowing this could change values and reconsider views. Philosophy can moivate people to act (rawles) that is something philosophy gives to acivists.
