PHI 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bubonic Plague, Fatalism, Nicolaus Copernicus
25 Apr 2016
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The moral philosophy or philosophical study of moral values (morality) Ethics/moral philosophy seeks to establish coherent, synthesized/integrated thinking about moral beliefs. Usually accompanied by implied conclusion: deal with it or get used to it. Idea that survival requires accepting resent conditions of social life, and to learn how to play the existing (unfair) game of life. Scienti c study of moral beliefs and practices. The social scientist can tell us what in uenced-what caused-this belief to come about. But such empirical observations cannot tell us whether such behavior was right or wrong. Normative ethics is the study of the principles, rules, or theories that guide actions and judgments. Ethics is tasked with critically assessing: concepts ( superiority , individual moral arguments (if not a christian, then no moral status), and, broader theories that support them such concepts and arguments, Moral statement: statement af rming that an action is right or wrong or that a person is good or bad.
