Philosophy 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Egotism, Consequentialism, Deontological Ethics

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1020
• Professor: Cathy Thorpe

Document Summary

In the higher cultures the standardization of custom and belief over a couple of continents has given a false sense of the inevitability of the particular forms that have gained currency, and we need to turn to a wider survey in order to check the conclusions we hastily base upon this near universality of familiar customs. : we all learn in cultures which is why we are too comfortable in our surrounding culture, abnormalities to our culture may be acceptable in others. Arguments against moral absolutism i) if there is an objective moral truth, how can we have access to it: metaphysical, we can"t we can only get an idea since morals are in the head ii) if we cannot have access to moral truth, what is the meaning of believing that it exists, epistemological, vacant belief iii) practical consequences, they believe that their own view of morality is correct.