PHIL 338 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Moral Authority
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Metaphysics deals with the nature of reality--how things really are. Epistemology addresses how we can have knowledge or justified beliefs. Approaches to understanding moral belief: religious traditions (in my special sense). Individual judgment is not encouraged; often it is forcibly suppressed: the proof paradigm (positive manifestation). Truths and uses them as premises for infallible proofs. Reasoning is top- down from moral principles to particular moral judgments. "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, Reasoning from moral norms or principles and other acceptable premises to a. Moral judgment about a particular case (a particular moral judgment). For religious traditions with an infallible moral authority and for the proof. Both of them require an infallible source of the fundamental moral principles (e. g. , god or our reason). An example to illustrate the contrast between top-down and.
