ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, Pope Francis
29 Oct 2016
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Visceral: relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect. Learning how to dwell in place in simplicity, independence. People don"t realize that there may be a different way to solve their problems; something that"s ethical. Ethics is often the last thing considered when a decision is made. Start from ethics and then move to economics, social etc. We a(cid:396)e so(cid:272)ial (cid:271)ei(cid:374)gs (cid:374)eed to get alo(cid:374)g u(cid:374)like so(cid:373)e a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als, (cid:449)e (cid:374)eed to (cid:396)ely o(cid:374) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e tha(cid:374) instinct: norms and expectations, rules, laws. Margaret thatcher along with reagan ushered in a new era of economic thinking; people grabbed onto thatcher"s idea of "there"s no such thing as so(cid:272)iety" "people (cid:373)ust look afte(cid:396) the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es fi(cid:396)st". It is the study of the process of determining moral conduct through reflection and analysis. How we know what is right, what is wrong. Morals, on the other hand, are the duties, values, beliefs that determine.
