PHIL 2020 : Exam 1 What You Should Know Notes Plus Essays
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A recognition of the conflict between the opinions of people, a search for the origins of that conflict, a skepticism regarding it, and a kind of investigation to determine whether the opinion is rightly held : text definition . The well-reasoned inquiry into and attempt to address the fundamental, non-empirical questions of the human condition. One of the principle issues in meta-ethics is whether or not any moral judgments are objectively true or whether all moral judgments are subjective, i. e. expressing the attitudes, preferences, etc. of particular agents: hume"s guillotine. British empiricist philosopher, david hume is historically influential for articulating one of the first versions of the is/ought problem and for his thesis that the passions, not reason, are the basis of morality. Basic argument: every moral judgment is intrinsically motivating, factual judgments are not intrinsically motivating, thus, moral judgments are not factual judgments.
