PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: John Stuart Mill, Consequentialism
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Descriptive claim a claim about what is the case. Normative claim a claim about how things ought to be. There are three types of normative claims: moral claims, prudential claims, normative epistemic claims. Moral claims claims about how people ought to act, rather than about how people do in fact act. It is wrong to break a promise or eating meat is morally permissible. Prudential claims claims about what would be prudent or in your self-interest. You should eat a lot of leafy greens or should eat a lot of salsa. Normative epistemic claims claims about what one should believe or how one ought to reason. One ought not hold inconsistent beliefs or if all evidence supports that it was professor. Plums in the library with the candlestick, you should believe that it was. Both descriptive and normative claims can be true or false. Argument a series of propositions aimed at establishing or justifying some point.
