Philosophy 1230A/B Lecture 7: LECTURE 7
25 Dec 2016
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Audio recording started: 9:34 am friday, september 23, 2016. Lesbian couple wanted a deaf child so got sperm donor with 5 generations of deafness in family. Couple didn"t use medical technologies to ensure child is deaf. Audio recording started: 9:49 am friday, september 23, 2016. You should be able to do whatever you want as long as. Harm = x harms s if x makes s worse off than s would have been without. So we are not harming them, we are selecting for a deaf child. Doesn"t make sense as it would be a different person. For socrates, the aim is to relieve inconsistencies, make true beliefs. Correspondence theory of truth: a statement is true if and only if it is in correspondence with reality. The world determines what is true, not our beliefs. You don"t need to prove it because the world proves it. It is an ends, the goal of inquiry.
