PP110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Egotism, Meta-Ethics, Frontal Lobe
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Pp110 class 1 introduction to ethics (cid:862)we are dis(cid:272)ussi(cid:374)g (cid:374)o s(cid:373)all (cid:373)atter, (cid:271)ut ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e ought to li(cid:448)e. (cid:863) (cid:894) o(cid:272)rates i(cid:374) plato"s repu(cid:271)li(cid:272)(cid:895) Living with other people is important for not only use but others. Descriptive claim: telling you about the way the world is. Normative claims: the (cid:449)a(cid:455) the (cid:449)orld (cid:862)should(cid:863) (cid:271)e, or (cid:449)hat our rights (cid:862)ought(cid:863) to (cid:271)e. Interested in asking questions like: how we should live our lives not how to live our lives. Philosophy = philia + sophia (love of knowledge study of ideas) Abstract questions should vs do: philia love, sophia wisdom/knowledge. Ethics focus on the area of morality which concentrates on human conduct and. Moral or immoral human values: moral or ethical - we usually mean they are good people immoral or unethical - we usually mean they are bad people. Similarly, human actions may be moral or immoral, ethical, or unethical.
