DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Kantian Ethics, Critical Philosophy, Universal Law
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Reasons and foundations reconsidering threats to ethics. We can have different reasons for actions: selfish or admirable, depending on our sentiments, (some) people may sympathise with us based on theirs (or vice versa) Reasons (underlining the fundamental principles of ethics: after the 18th century, the view switched to proper reason being considered confined to mathematics and logic. No restrictions on our passions imposed by reason alone" (the heart rules everything) david hume: ethics as a domain of preference and choice. Reason is involved in getting our description of the world right, rather than prescribing something. Aristotle and the idea of the good life. Equated the intended /natural life with the virtuous life (latent potential, to be practised: but taken apart, it is easy to see that human nature involves elements of selfishness, aggression, short-sightedness, cruelty, and so on this isn"t virtuous. People do well by doing good, or at least by avoiding doing bad".
