PHIL 2103 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Human Nature, Grand Rapids, Minnesota

• School: University of Arkansas
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2103
• Professor: Eli Hess

Document Summary

Lecture notes normative ethics continued with natural law. Natural law: the moral law is the natural law the law that requires us to act in accordance with our nature. David hume argued against moral knowledge: believes there are only conceptual or empirical truths, argument: in order to have moral knowledge there are only going to be conceptual truth or an empirical truth. Moral claims are neither conceptual nor empirical so therefore moral. Conceptual truths (a priori) vs. empirical truths (a posteriori: conceptual truth you know if it"s true or false without further investigation. A sphere is not a cube: empirical truth you know if it"s true or false only by investigation. Nope doesn"t provide good moral guidance: the fourth conception of human nature, human nature is what we are designed to do (or purposed or functioned) Efficiency model: humans have a function or purpose, problem: natural law theory cannot be correct.