PHIL 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tom Godwin, Demesne, Intuitionism

• School: Brock University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1F90
• Professor: Richard Brown

Document Summary

Appealing to a standard to be universalized. Ethical statements are meaningless because there not true or false but there not useless. Act so as to will the maxim of your act to be a universal moral law. The law all stowaways on eds shall be jettisoned immediately upon discovery . Bartons choices; choice a: marilyn dies choice b: eight die marilyn barton and six men. An action as a reasonable expectation of consequences. If someone has a right you have a duty to respect them. 1. change the sign: change marilyn into cosmo. Marilyn has rights therefore we can"t kill her in this situation we have to respect her rights: fundamental right: equal right, derivative rights: equal right not to be killed. Narversons bottomline-- the right not to be killed is not absolute ; it can be overridden. No earthly sign of god and does not behave how a humanely parent does.