PHIL 1550 Chapter Notes - Chapter Introduction: Normative Ethics, Meta-Ethics, Value Theory
10 Feb 2017
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Moral philosophy): the branch of knowledge concerned w/ answering questions of . Golden rule: the normative ethical principles that says that your treatment of others is morally acceptable if and only if you would be willing to be treated in the exact same way. Major temptation is to regard ethics as bankrupt, or to think at all ethical views are equally plausible. Skeptics deny that there are any proper starting points for ethical reflection; moral reasoning is a way of rationalizing our biases & gut feelings. Sunday, january 11, 2015: might doesn"t make right people in power can get away w/ lots of things but this. Introduction doesn"t justify what they do: free & informed requests prevent rights violations. Many of these claims require interpretation in order to apply them in a satisfying way. Conventional morality: the set of traditional principles that are widely shared w/in a culture/society result of human decisions, agreements, & practices.
