PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Positive Tone, Corn Flakes, Satisfaction Theory Of Atonement
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Second answer > individual well-being or welfare. Thinking in terms of your own welfare: answers the question: how ought we to act" in prudential terms, largely shapes the moral ought": we have duties to promote the well-being of others and possibly ourselves, friendships b. We seek welfare as the final answer to the question: what ought i to do?". Sometimes we choose things that we think are good, but maybe they"re good in the moment they lead to something that might improve your life. Put shoes one > walked to the store > bought corn flakes. Descriptive adequacy: a theory of welfare fits/explains our pre-existing judgements about what is valuable: evaluation of life going well, events that make us worse off, activities worth pursuing. Normative adequacy was harding to grasp than descriptive adequacy. Normative adequacy would be theories of what you should do. The idea of adequacy means fitting" in this context. Descriptive adequacy is the better way to go.