PHI 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Stoicism
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Each perspective is true but they are different. Talking about culture endlessly but no idea of what a culture means. Relativism: the idea that ethics is relative to your environment. True relativists there is no real or valid means for judging behavior. Prof did his phd on culture specific to political. We can be descriptive relativists or normative relativists. Descriptive relativists always in danger of the is/ought fallacy, no cultures agree. Normative relativists there is not universal values. Frederick nietche things look different and are experienced based on where you are and where you are looking. The genealogy of morals study of the origins. fortitude, being able to work hard and not complain being able to bear and be tough about it. He thought that christianity was the slave morality. Affiliation social interaction and form bonds with other human beings. 10 very specific goods for humans that would be difficult to argue against.
