PHIL 251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Moral Realism, Real Humans, Visual Perception
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Attempt to show morality as a social product of human psychology. Moral objectivism: moral observations are objective, not subjective. Humans are naturally social; natural altruism (humans have capacity for altruistic motives) anti - psychological egoist views. Describes some people as disagreeing just for the sake of being disagreeable. Disingenuous disputant, denies reality of moral distinctions. Opposed by hume, who is a moral realist. Section i: starts w/ observationi of moral discussion. > quality of opposites (actions) can be observed. Humans have the capacity to ~perceive~ quality of actions. Images of right v. wrong much of visual perception is related to psychology. > morality is a product of human perception, is objective, and is real. > psychology is the basis of moral decisions, there is also a reality to it. > there is general agreement to these distinctions. > what capacity is the source for our moral judgements? product of human reason product of human sentiment* (sentiment that"s supported by reason)
