PHI 325 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Value Theory, Environmental Ethics, Applied Ethics
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Ethics: value theory, what should we do? , what kind of life should we live? . Meta-ethics: moral discourse, are things true or false or is there a continuum based upon expressions of emotions, cognitive or non-cognitive, not going to be discussed much in the class. Normative ethics: aka moral theory, theory of the right and good. *purported: appearing or stated to be true, through not necessarily so. (synonym: alleged) Bio-medical ethics- identifying, analyzing, and evaluating validity of arguments. Argument: a group of statements where at least one provides support for the truth of another statement (the conclusion), statement- a sentence which is either true or false. Premise indicators: ex) since, because, for, given that. Conclusion indicators: thus, so therefore, for this reason, this implies that, hence, consequently, as a result. Independent: each premise provides support to the conclusion on its own, conjoint, 2+ premises required to establish a conclusion, no premise supports the conclusion without the other(s)
