PHIL 201 Lecture Notes - Naturalistic Fallacy
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He is about to make a criticism of philosophies that do attempt to make a. Both part of same university, but there was a movement in ethics called intuitionism. You would expect this, but it is a view that the term good, is not defineable in the sense that breaking it up into componable parts. The idea is you take a word that is complex and you analyze it to break it down to its definition. He says good is a simple concept and cannot be analyzed. Good is probly the central term of ethics so its useful that we say good is simple and not analyzable. You"ll still find a definition for good in the dictionary. But it is not technically an analysis of the word. You cant really break it down much. definition for good. Utilitarianism makes the mistake that good can be equitable to other things.
