PHIL 2103 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Moral Skepticism, Normative Ethics, Moral Universalism

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2103
• Professor: Eli Hess

Document Summary

Golden rule fundamental moral rule that can justify all of our specific moral duties: metaethics asks questions about value theory and normative ethics to determine if the status of ethical claims are true. But every rule admits exceptions and no moral rule is absolute so then we make up the moral rules. Argument chain of thought in which premises are offered to support conclusion: it is possible to develop moral arguments that fail even though every premises is true. Arguments: logically valid truth of premises guarantees truth of conclusion, logically invalid truth of premises does not guarantee the truth of its conclusion, valid vs. Valid arguments may contain false premises and false conclusions: sound arguments logically valid and all premises are true. Gold standard of good reasoning: if an argument is invalid and therefore unsound it does not mean the conclusion is false. Moral agent one who can control their own behavior through moral reasoning.