PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Asian Values, Premolar, Cultural Relativism
8 Apr 2016
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Morality includes theories about human nature, the best way to live, and the nature of value. We tend to look at morality in a much narrow scope. Utilitarianism is a theory that looks at the morality of actions. The ontology is also similar it looks at rules that guide actions: 3rd definition. Things that define morality: the good life/ good ends, the rights, human rights, virtue. He wanted to take the theory out of theorycism: a theory of knowledge that says we can only know that things are real if we can touch things. He looked at moral ideas and tried to ground them into things that seem real. Motivation: simplify morality into an easily usable principle of action (incomp) The basic motivation is crafting utilitarianism as a theory is that they look at our common sense morality. Ex: good and evil good and bad. Good and bad = pleasure and pain. Tries to simplify morality into a simple concept.
