PHI 1370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Nicomachean Ethics, Ginger Ale, Justifiable Homicide
7 Mar 2016
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Ethics internal sanction (exception: greek ethics) Social norms and the law: ex. Hippocratic oath ancient example, essentially, do no harm; written by. With regard to healing the sick, i will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and i will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage : ex. University of ottawa code of conduct: breaches of ethical codes can involve legal action, threat of legal penalty is invoked as assurance to keep actions from being, ex. Murder, theft, rape: hobbes favoured this; suggests that ethics does not mean anything unless there is a penalty behind it, enshrined by the law. Reasoned that people will do anything they want as long as they can get away with it. An anti-libertarian committed: legal proscriptions and ethical codes. Are desirable so that people have bases and justifications for choices. Give a sense of security and normalcy: ethics/law interface.
